Writing the Pre-Raphaelites

Text, Context, Subtext

Michaela Giebelhausen, Tim Barringer

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Routledge
28 July 2009

Art & design styles: Pre-Raphaelite art

This vibrant collection of essays claims that a complex network of texts by critics, biographers and diarists established the credibility and influence of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Throughout the twentieth century, Modernist taste failed to acknowledge the achievement of oppositional groupings such as the Pre-Raphaelites. The essays collected here, however, reveal that the British group anticipated later avant-gardes by using the written word to configure for itself a radical artistic identity.

Public and critics alike were scandalized by the radicalism of Pre-Raphaelite painting, its unflinching portrayal of historical figures and of contemporary life, and its irreverent attitude to artistic convention. Pre-Raphaelitism's innovations were not confined to style: new forms of artistic identity and behaviour were explored. As the contributors interrogate the texts through which Pre-Raphaelitism was constructed, they demonstrate that the movement's wide influence as a cultural phenomenon derived from the interplay between exhibited works and critical discourse. Applying a range of sophisticated methodologies from the fields of literary studies, art history, and cultural studies, these interdisciplinary essays uncover the neglected role of texts in the success of the Pre-Raphaelite rebellion and argue in favor of a new centrality for this movement in the history of nineteenth-century European culture.

Edited by: Michaela Giebelhausen, Tim Barringer
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780754657170
ISBN 10: 0754657175
Pages: 276
Publication Date: 28 July 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr Michaela Giebelhausen is based at the University of Essex, UK. Tim Barringer is Paul Mellon Professor in the History of Art at Yale University, USA. Michaela Giebelhausen, Tim Barringer, Deborah Cherry, Julie F. Codell, David Peters Corbett, Julie L'Enfant, William Vaughan, Jason Rosenfeld, Colin Cruise, Matthew Plampin, Malcolm Warner.

Reviews for Writing the Pre-Raphaelites: Text, Context, Subtext

' ... a highly sophisticated, inventive, scholarly, and desirable collection of essays... With an international line-up of this calibre this book will become de rigeur for anybody working in the field, anybody interested in the Pre-Raphaelites, and anybody interested in the idea of the avant garde in the nineteenth century.' Barrie Bullen, University of Reading, UK 'This collection of essays strikes a rarely achieved interpretive balance between Pre-Raphaelite textual and visual production and critical and historical consumption...The essays offer fresh insights...Recommended.' Choice '... an exciting new book on Pre-Raphaelitism...' Cahiers victoriens et edouardiens 'The complexities and complicities of art historical practice, both frustrating and enriching, which the contributors have identified in engaging with the Pre-Raphaelite legacy, mark a widening of the scholarship area to include not only the work of art and the artist, but also the networks of production, reception and consumption - which constitutes the collection's greatest merit.' Pre-Raphaelite Review