Art critic John Ruskin championed Pre-Raphaelite art and artists. His pamphlet Pre-Raphaelitism, published in 1851 three years after the Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood had formed, defends the group against the hostile abuse rained on them by other contemporary critics.
In an individual capacity Ruskin was a patron for many of the Pre-Raphaelites and nurtured the talents of particular members; in public he was a critic who devoted serious time to appraising their artwork. In turn, the group was influenced by Ruskin’s Modern Painters (first volume published 1843) and his other early writings on art and architecture.
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Art critic John Ruskin championed Pre-Raphaelite art and artists.
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Pre-Raphaelitism by John Ruskin. Review. Economist 9.417 (23 Aug. 1851), 933
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William Gaunt (/ɡɔːnt/; 1900–1980) was a British artist and art historian, best known for his books on British 19th-century art.
Born the son of a graphic designer and chromolithographer, Gaunt dabbled in drawing and writing as a youth. In 1914, after winning a literary contest in The Connoisseur for an essay on Shakespeare's The Tempest, his thoughts seriously turned to becoming a critic. He served briefly in World War I, fighting in the Durham Light Infantry in 1918, until the war ended that year. The following year he attended Worcester College, Oxford, where he read modern history and participated in the Art Society. At Oxford his friends included John Rothenstein and Cyril Connolly. Graduating with honours in 1922, he studied at the Ruskin School of Drawing and wrote reviews of art exhibitions.[1]
He worked as a free-lance contributor for The Studio magazine, editing several special issues. Gaunt was fascinated by the Pre-Raphaelites, at that time undervalued as Victorian. He published in 1942 his most enduring title on that subject, The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy. He completed an M.A. in 1926. In 1930 he published a collection of his drawings, called London Promenade. 1935 he married Mary Catherine Reilly Connolly (died, 1980). The years 1930-39 were spent writing various literary and artistic criticism, including The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy. During the Second World-War, he took a special appointment for the war effort and researched for the book The Aesthetic Adventure. The Gaunts lived in a country cottage near the Surrey Hampshire borders.[2]
Selected publications[edit] 黑體字有中譯
- The Aesthetic Adventure
- The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy 不知道
Lush, colourful and unquestionably beautiful, Pre-Raphaelite works are much admired today. Yet on their release these paintings – and the artists who created them – were reviled as immoral and dangerous. Artist, writer and art historian William Gaunt had a particular passion for Victorian art, and his biography of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood is the finest account of the period. This lavishly illustrated edition includes colour images of 14 of the most significant pieces of Pre-Raphaelite art, as well as many black-and-white integrated images and photographs of the artists and their circle. The exquisite art silk cover features an image of Pia de’ Tolomei, Gabriel Rossetti’s painting of Jane Morris, William Morris’s wife – with whom he was having an affair. The Arming and Departure of the Knights, the tapestry designed by Edward Burne-Jones and woven by Morris & Co, appears as a stunning double-page spread.
Brimming with the author’s extensive knowledge of art and art theory, The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy introduces all the key players – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris, among others – and delves into the intimate dramas and revelations of their lives. From the initial flurry of revolutionary zeal to the increasingly complex web of cliques, love triangles and feuds, Gaunt underpins these vivid events with a fascinating and clear-sighted discussion of Pre-Raphaelite art and philosophy.
They fitted real people and real backgrounds to imaginary scenes or vice versa, painting these imaginary scenes from nature with the most scrupulous fidelity of detail and pure and vivid colour. It was the rudimentary stage of the Pre-Raphaelite magic
All the best-known stories of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood are explored, as well as the less familiar details – Lizzie Siddal’s death from an overdose of laudanum, and her later exhumation by a grief-stricken Gabriel Rossetti, who regretted burying a precious set of poems with her; Rossetti’s menagerie of animals and his muse Fanny, to whom he affectionately referred to as ’my dear Elephant’; the abruptly annulled marriage of John Ruskin, whose wife fell in love with Millais over the course of a rainy month in Scotland; William Morris’s socialist awakening and arrest for assaulting a policeman; and the creation of the Kelmscott Chaucer, the ’final Pre-Raphaelite masterpiece’. Taking in, as Gaunt describes it, ’drug addiction … psychopathology, a shadowy conflict with the devil, a soap advertisement and an abortive attempt at political revolution’, The Pre-Raphaelite Tragedy is art history at its most engrossing and its most human.
PRODUCTION DETAILS
Bound in printed cloth
Set in Horley Old Style with Goudy Forum display
296 pages
Frontispiece and 16 pages of colour plates, and 20 pages of integrated black & white illustrations
Blocked slipcase
9˝ x 6¼˝
- The Pre-Raphaelite Dream
- The March of the Moderns
- Impressionists
- Victorian Olympus
- English Painting: A Concise History
- Turner: Colour Library
- Court Painting in England from Tudor to Victorian Times
- A Concise History of English painting, Thames & Hudson, London, 1964. ISBN 0500200165
- Golden Age of Flemish Art
- Renoir: Colour Library
- Arrows of Desire: A Study of William Blake and His Romantic World
- Everyman's Dictionary of Pictorial Art. Vol.1
- The Great Century of British Painting : Hogarth to Turner
- Painters of Fantasy : from Hieronymus Bosch to Salvador Dalí
- The Observer's Book of Painting and Graphic art
- William De Morgan: Pre-Raphaelite Ceramics
- Restless Century: Painting in Britain, 1800-1900
- Turner
- The World of William Hogarth
- The Observer's Book of Modern Art: From Impressionism to the Present Day
- The Observer's Book of Sculpture
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