{"product_id":"writing-the-pre-raphaelites-text-context-subtext-9780754657170","title":"Writing The Pre-Raphaelites: Text, Context, Subtext","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Michaela Giebelhausen | Tim Barringer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis vibrant collection of essays claims that a complex network of texts by critics, biographers and diarists established the credibility and influence of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Throughout the twentieth century, Modernist taste failed to acknowledge the achievement of oppositional groupings such as the Pre-Raphaelites. The essays collected here, however, reveal that the British group anticipated later avant-gardes by using the written word to configure for itself a radical artistic identity. Public and critics alike were scandalized by the radicalism of Pre-Raphaelite painting, its unflinching portrayal of historical figures and of contemporary life, and its irreverent attitude to artistic convention. Pre-Raphaelitism's innovations were not confined to style: new forms of artistic identity and behaviour were explored. As the contributors interrogate the texts through which Pre-Raphaelitism was constructed, they demonstrate that the movement's wide influence as a cultural phenomenon derived from the interplay between exhibited works and critical discourse. Applying a range of sophisticated methodologies from the fields of literary studies, art history, and cultural studies, these interdisciplinary essays uncover the neglected role of texts in the success of the Pre-Raphaelite rebellion and argue in favor of a new centrality for this movement in the history of nineteenth-century European culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46930303058071,"sku":"9780754657170","price":11277.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780754657170.webp?v=1771606186","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/writing-the-pre-raphaelites-text-context-subtext-9780754657170","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}