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Corporate Author Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, author.

Title Victorian radicals : from the Pre-Raphaelites to the arts & crafts movement / Martin Ellis, Victoria Osborne, Tim Barringer.

Publication Info. New York : American Federation of Arts ; Munich ; New York : DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2018.

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 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  OVR 700.941 ELLIS    Check Shelf
Description 280 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 32 cm
Summary "In the second half of the nineteenth century, three generations of young, rebellious artists and designers revolutionized the visual arts in Britain, engaging with and challenging the new industrial world around them. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, William Morris and his associates, and the champions of the Arts & Crafts movement offered a radical artistic and social vision that found inspiration in the pre-industrial past and came to decisively influence visual culture in Britain and beyond. Drawn from the outstanding collection of the city of Birmingham, United Kingdom, Victorian Radicals will, for the first time, bring together paintings, works on paper, and decorative arts to illuminate this most dynamic period of British art in an exhibition of unparalleled historical and visual richness. Through approximately 145 objects by pioneering artists including Ford Madox Brown, Edward Burne-Jones, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Elizabeth Siddall, among others, Victorian Radicals will represent the spectrum of avant-garde practices of the Victorian period, emphasizing the response of Britain's first modern art movements to unfettered industrialization. These artists' attention to detail, use of vibrant colors, and engagement with both literary themes and contemporary life will be illustrated through a selection of paintings, drawings, and watercolors presented alongside superb examples of decorative art"-- Provided by publisher.
Note "This catalogue is published on the occasion of the traveling exhibition Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts & Crafts Movement, organized by the American Federation of Arts and Birmingham Museums Trust."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents By the Gains of Industry We Promote Art: The Birmingham Collection / Martin Ellis -- The Pre-Raphaelites and the Modern World / Timothy Barringer -- Practice and Ideal: Ideas and Objects, 1850/1910 / Martin Ellis -- "A New Order of Things": The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy and Art in Birmingham / Victoria Osborne.
Subject Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery -- Exhibitions.
Pre-Raphaelitism -- Exhibitions.
Arts and crafts movement -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions.
Art, Victorian -- Exhibitions.
Decorative arts, Victorian -- Exhibitions.
Art -- England -- Birmingham -- Exhibitions.
Art and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery. (OCoLC)fst00524253
Art and society. (OCoLC)fst00815432
Art, Victorian. (OCoLC)fst00817001
Arts and crafts movement. (OCoLC)fst00817842
Decorative arts, Victorian. (OCoLC)fst00889412
Pre-Raphaelitism. (OCoLC)fst01074771
England -- Birmingham. (OCoLC)fst01205911
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs. (OCoLC)fst01424028
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Ellis, Martin, curator.
Osborne, Victoria, curator.
Barringer, T. J., curator.
American Federation of Arts, organizer.
Birmingham Museums Trust, organizer.
ISBN 9783791357638 (hardback)
3791357638 (hardback)
9781885444479 (paperback)
1885444478 (paperback)
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