the art of the pre raphaelites elizabeth prettejohn

A major concern is the relationship between art and sexuality, from the experiments of the Rossetti circle in the 1860s to the male nude in late-Victorian sculpture. The chapters address not only 'art for art's sake' but linkages with the realms of science and morality. It is reinterpreted here as a significant exploration of what it might mean to produce works of art in the modern world. Victorian Aestheticism has often been treated as a fivolous elevation of art above the concerns of political and social life. This volume overviews parallel trends in the visual arts, including the work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, James McNeil Whistler, Edward Burne-Jones, Simeon Solomon and Albert Moore among others. What happened in Victorian painting and sculpture after the pre-Raphaelites? Aestheticism has been called the next avant-garde movement but attention has centred on literary figures such as Algernon Charles Swinburn, Walter Peter and Oscar Wilde. physical culture - the male nude and sculpture in late-Victorian Britain, Michael Hatt.the 'British matron' and the body beautiful - the nude debate of 1885, Alison Smith.the image in the middle - John Addington Symonds and homoerotic art criticism, Whitney Davis.Morality: versions of the annunciation - Wilde's aestheticism and the message of beauty, Colin Cruise Burne-Jones's 'The mirror of venus' - surface and subjectivity in the art criticism of the 1870s, Kate Flint.Science: nature and abstraction in the aesthetic development of Albert Moore, Robyn Asleson

the 'artists' have come out and the 'British' remain - the Whistler faction at the Society of British Artists, Anne Koval.whistler, Swinburne, and art for art's sake, Robin Spencer.Walter Pater and aesthetic painting, Elizabeth Prettejohn.Art: Rossetti and the scandal of art for art's sake in the early 1860s, Alistair Grieve.

The art of the pre raphaelites elizabeth prettejohn