Art & Design Styles: Pre-Raphaelite Art

For centuries, interest in Shakespeare's Hamlet has prioritised its brooding, melancholy prince. Yet, over time, the enigmatic Ophelia, his tragic ...

In the 1890s, French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry founded pataphysics, the absurdist science of imaginary solutions, a concept that has been no...

In this volume, leading scholars of photography and media examine photographys vital role in the evolution of media and communication in the ninete...

As fin de siglo Spain struggled with perceived decadence and decline, the visual arts reflected the debate and influenced the outcome. This volume ...

This book provides an up-to-date introduction to the religious and artistic story behind The Light of the World by William Holman Hunt. Created in ...

In a New Light is the first permanent collection catalogue in the Palmer Museum of Arts fifty-two-year history. Made possible by a generous grant f...

In a New Light is the first permanent collection catalogue in the Palmer Museum of Arts fifty-two-year history. Made possible by a generous grant f...

In the 1890s, French poet and playwright Alfred Jarry founded pataphysics, the absurdist science of imaginary solutions, a concept that has been no...

This volume deals with the various (direct and indirect) connections between literary figures, artists and locations during the Victorian era. It a...

In recent years, many prominent and successful artists have claimed that their primary concern is not the artwork they produce but the artistic pro...

In 1851 John Ruskin came to the defence of the young artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood by writing two letters to The Times, refuting wides...

The Scottish beauty Effie Gray is the heroine of a great Victorian love story. Married at 19 to John Ruskin, she found herself trapped in an uncons...

Smell loomed large in cultural discourse in the late nineteenth century, thanks to the midcentury fear of miasma, the drive for sanitation reform, ...

Founded in 1848 as a secret society, the Pre-Raphaelites rejected classical ideals and the dominant artistic genre painting of their era for what t...

Decorative handcrafts are commonly associated with traditional femininity and unthreatening docility. However, the artists connected with interwar ...

This exquisite collection of paintings illustrates just how marvelously the Pre- Raphaelites' focus on the natural world intersected with the Victo...

This important new study reevaluates British art writing and the rise of formalism in the visual arts from 1900 to 1939. Taking Roger Fry as his st...

This provocative study argues that some of the most inventive artwork of the 1890s was strongly influenced by the methods of experimental science a...