William Rossetti's Art Criticism: The Search for Truth in Victorian Art
William Rossetti's Art Criticism examines the art criticism of William Michael Rossetti, an underrated member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and places it within the context of Victorian Culture. Drawing on many reviews never published in book form, this study establishes Rossetti as a major art critic and valuable source of information on the Victorian world. The author presents Rossetti's role in the Pre-Raphaelite movement as editor of Germ and as a beginning reviewer when he maintained the realist creed seen in D.G. Rossetti, Millais, and Holman Hunt. She then follows his broadening view through his exposure to French and Japanese art that affected his eventual sensitive response to James McNeill Whistler. The study concludes with a personal examination of his final approach which he called "aesthetic realism" in which he is grounded in nineteenth century realism, but also shows a twentieth century determination to examine works closely as autonomous objects. It also addresses new findings in Rossetti's own Japanese art collection, his search for a vital spirit of the past in the Classical and Gothic Revivals, and his importance as an authoritative spokesman for humanistic values in Victorian culture.
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William Rossetti's Art Criticism: The Search for Truth in Victorian Art
William Rossetti's Art Criticism examines the art criticism of William Michael Rossetti, an underrated member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and places it within the context of Victorian Culture. Drawing on many reviews never published in book form, this study establishes Rossetti as a major art critic and valuable source of information on the Victorian world. The author presents Rossetti's role in the Pre-Raphaelite movement as editor of Germ and as a beginning reviewer when he maintained the realist creed seen in D.G. Rossetti, Millais, and Holman Hunt. She then follows his broadening view through his exposure to French and Japanese art that affected his eventual sensitive response to James McNeill Whistler. The study concludes with a personal examination of his final approach which he called "aesthetic realism" in which he is grounded in nineteenth century realism, but also shows a twentieth century determination to examine works closely as autonomous objects. It also addresses new findings in Rossetti's own Japanese art collection, his search for a vital spirit of the past in the Classical and Gothic Revivals, and his importance as an authoritative spokesman for humanistic values in Victorian culture.
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William Rossetti's Art Criticism: The Search for Truth in Victorian Art

William Rossetti's Art Criticism: The Search for Truth in Victorian Art

by Julie L'Enfant
William Rossetti's Art Criticism: The Search for Truth in Victorian Art

William Rossetti's Art Criticism: The Search for Truth in Victorian Art

by Julie L'Enfant

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William Rossetti's Art Criticism examines the art criticism of William Michael Rossetti, an underrated member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and places it within the context of Victorian Culture. Drawing on many reviews never published in book form, this study establishes Rossetti as a major art critic and valuable source of information on the Victorian world. The author presents Rossetti's role in the Pre-Raphaelite movement as editor of Germ and as a beginning reviewer when he maintained the realist creed seen in D.G. Rossetti, Millais, and Holman Hunt. She then follows his broadening view through his exposure to French and Japanese art that affected his eventual sensitive response to James McNeill Whistler. The study concludes with a personal examination of his final approach which he called "aesthetic realism" in which he is grounded in nineteenth century realism, but also shows a twentieth century determination to examine works closely as autonomous objects. It also addresses new findings in Rossetti's own Japanese art collection, his search for a vital spirit of the past in the Classical and Gothic Revivals, and his importance as an authoritative spokesman for humanistic values in Victorian culture.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780761812906
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 12/23/1998
Pages: 392
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.28(h) x 1.07(d)

About the Author

Julie L'Enfant is Assistant Professor at the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Table of Contents

chapter 1 List of Illustrations
chapter 2 Preface
chapter 3 Introduction to the Art Criticism of William Rossetti
chapter 4 Rossetti as Pre-Raphaelite Critic
chapter 5 In Search of Style: The British School, 1855-1862
chapter 6 Critical Authority: William Rossetti and Japonism
chapter 7 Rossetti and Revivalism
chapter 8 Conclusion
chapter 9 Bibliography
chapter 10 Index
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