The new painting of the 1860s : between the pre-Raphaelites and the aesthetic movement / Allen Staley.
2011
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The new painting of the 1860s : between the pre-Raphaelites and the aesthetic movement / Allen Staley.
Author
Staley, Allen.
ISBN
9780300175677 (alkaline paper)
0300175671 (alkaline paper)
0300175671 (alkaline paper)
Imprint
New Haven [Conn.] : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, c2011.
Language
English
Description
ix, 438 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 30 cm.
Call Number
ND467 .S72 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
759.209/034
Summary
This handsome volume is the first authoritative survey of one of the most intriguing periods of British art--the radically innovative decade of the 1860s. The book explores new developments in English painting of this period, focusing on the early work of Edward Burne-Jones, Frederic Leighton, Albert Moore, Edward Poynter, Simeon Solomon, and James McNeill Whistler, as well as on paintings by Frederick Sandys and the older G. F. Watts, and by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his Pre-Raphaelite colleagues Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. Allen Staley argues that engagement in the decorative arts, particularly by Burne-Jones, Moore, and Poynter at the outset of their careers, led to a transcending of traditional expectations of painting, making abstract formal qualities, or beauty for beauty's sake, the main goal. Rather than being about what it depicts, the painting itself becomes its own subject. The New Painting of the 1860s examines the interplay among the artists and the shared ambitions underlying their works, giving impetus to what would soon come to be known as the Aesthetic Movement.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Younger men and new developments 1856-1862
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Frederick Sandys
Simeon Solomon
Albert Moore
James McNeill Whistler
Edward Poynter
Frederic Leighton
George Frederic Watts
Edward Burne-Jones
Conclusion
Postscripts. Three altarpieces
William Holman Hunt, 1860-1869
John Everett Millais, 1856-1869.
Younger men and new developments 1856-1862
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Frederick Sandys
Simeon Solomon
Albert Moore
James McNeill Whistler
Edward Poynter
Frederic Leighton
George Frederic Watts
Edward Burne-Jones
Conclusion
Postscripts. Three altarpieces
William Holman Hunt, 1860-1869
John Everett Millais, 1856-1869.