After the Pre-Raphaelites: Art & Aestheticism in Victorian England

By Elizabeth Prettejohn

Book Overview

What happened in Victorian painting and sculpture after the Pre-Raphaelites? Aestheticism has been called the next avant-garde movement but attention has centered on literary figures such as Algernon Charles Swinburne, Walter Pater, and Oscar Wilde. This volume is the first scholarly study of parallel trends in the visual arts, including the work of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, James McNeill Whistler, Edward Burne-Jones, Simeon Solomon, and Albert Moore among others.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813527511
• ISBN13: 9780813527512
• Release Date: August 1999
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.7" x 9.4"