Susan P. Casteras

Images of Victorian Womanhood in English Art

Alison Smith

Jan Marsh

Colin Trodd

Dianne Sachko Macleod

Christine Poulson

Julie F. Codell

Christiana Payne

Paul Barlow

Pamela Gerrish Nunn

Dr George M Korres, MR

Michael Hickox

Colin Cruise

Judith Bronkhurst

Stephen Wildman

Philip MacEvansoneya

"Re-framing the Pre-Raphaelites is a collection of essays by leading scholars in the field of Pre-Raphaelite studies. Some essays are case studies of well-known visual and literary works by founder members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; others explore meanings generated by Pre-Raphaelite works on specific themes and define the cultural work done by them. There are essays on John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown, Joanna Boyce, Edward Burne-Jones and other artists associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. Among the subjects discussed are gender, class, ethnicity, national and regional identity, patronage, the position of the professional woman artist, the nude, images of women and the Victorian cult of death. Some of the authors treat their chosen subject in a mainly art-historical context with a focus on new scholarly research. A number of the essays, in contrast, are informed by post-structuralist, feminist and psychoanalytic theories. These theoretical approaches lead the reader to consider both familiar and lesser-known works in new, and often controversial, frameworks and should provoke further theoretical and historical debate in this field." "Several of the essays are based on papers given at the Pre-Raphaelite session of the 1994 Conference of the Association of Art Historians."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Historical and Theoretical Essays

Re-framing the Pre-Raphaelites

Linda Chase

Hardy S. George

With styles ranging from traditional to abstract, the works in this volume span late nineteenth-century and twentieth-century American art and include examples from both Europe and Latin America. The common thread is excellence. Many of the paintings play on the boundaries between reality and fantasy, contain elements of humor or satire, or are rendered in a highly colorful, expressive style which does not directly imitate the natural world. Alison B. Amick is associate curator at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. Other contributors include Susan P. Casteras, Linda Chase, and Hardy S. George.

Westheimer Family Collection

Shining Spirit

Susan P. Casteras

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