Painting Dissent

Art, Ethics, and the American Pre-Raphaelites

Sophie Lynford

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Princeton University Press
03 January 2023

History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900

A revelatory history of the first artist collective in the United States and its effort to reshape nineteenth-century art, culture, and politics

The American Pre-Raphaelites founded a uniquely interdisciplinary movement composed of politically radical abolitionist artists and like-minded architects, critics, and scientists. Active during the Civil War, this dynamic collective united in a spirit of protest, seeking sweeping reforms of national art and culture. Painting Dissent recovers the American Pre-Raphaelites from the margins of history and situates them at the center of transatlantic debates about art, slavery, education, and politics.

Artists such as Thomas Charles Farrer and John Henry Hill championed a new style of landscape painting characterized by vibrant palettes, antipicturesque compositions, and meticulous brushwork. Their radicalism, however, was not solely one of style. Sophie Lynford traces how the American Pre-Raphaelites proclaimed themselves catalysts of a wide-ranging reform movement that staged politically motivated interventions in multiple cultural arenas, from architecture and criticism to collecting, exhibition design, and higher education. She examines how they publicly rejected their prominent contemporaries, the artists known as the Hudson River School, and how they offered incisive critiques of antebellum society by importing British models of landscape theory and practice.

Beautifully illustrated and drawing on a wealth of archival material, Painting Dissent transforms our understanding of how American artists depicted the nation during the most turbulent decades of the nineteenth century.

By: Sophie Lynford
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 267mm, Width: 191mm,
ISBN: 9780691231914
ISBN 10: 0691231915
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 03 January 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sophie Lynford is the Annette Woolard-Provine Curator of the Bancroft Pre-Raphaelite Collection at the Delaware Art Museum. She is the coauthor of Picturesque and Sublime: Thomas Cole’s Trans-Atlantic Inheritance.

Reviews for Painting Dissent: Art, Ethics, and the American Pre-Raphaelites

"""A thoroughly researched, meticulously written, and well-illustrated analysis.... Lynford’s brilliant analysis offers a fresh perspective on the motivations of the Pre-Raphaelites in a broader context and will therefore be of great interest to scholars and students of 19th American and English art alike. - Choice Reviews"""