WRITING THE PRE-RAPHAELITES by Michaela Giebelhausen (Editor), Tim Barringer (Editor) ( 9780754657170 )

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WRITING THE PRE-RAPHAELITES
TEXT, CONTEXT, SUBTEXT

By:

Michaela Giebelhausen (Editor), Tim Barringer (Editor)

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0754657175

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Pub. date:

28 July, 2009

Pages:

276

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A collection of essays which claims that a complex network of texts by critics, biographers and diarists established the credibility and influence of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. It reveals that the British group anticipated later avant-gardes by using the written word to configure for itself a radical artistic identity.

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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.

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Includes 24 b&w illustrations

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Ashgate Publishing Limited

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