The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites
10 best books like The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites (Elizabeth Prettejohn): Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art, A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne Jones, Agnes Poynter, and Louisa Baldwin, J.W. Waterhouse, Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness, Desperate Romantics: The Private Lives Of The Pre Raphaelites, Spectrum 7: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, Spectrum 12: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, The Arthur Rackham Treasury: 86 Full-Color Illustrations, Pre-Raphaelites in Love, Sister Wendy's 1000 Masterpieces
Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art
| Author | Susan Aberth |
| ISBN | 0853319081 |
This is the first book to survey the life and work of Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (born 1917). nineteen-year-old debutante, she escaped the stultifying demands of her wealthy English family by running away to Paris with her lover Max Ernst. She was immediately championed by Andre Breton,...
| Author | Judith Flanders |
| ISBN | 0393052109 |
THE MACDONALD SISTERS--Alice, Georgiana, Agnes, and Louisa--started life in the teeming ranks of the lower-middle classes, denied the advantages of education and the expectation of social advancement. Yet as wives and mothers they would connect a famous painter, a president of the Royal Academy,...
John William Waterhouse is among the most popular Victorian artists and many of his paintings, such as The Lady of Shallot, Hylas and the Nymphs and Ophelia, have become icons of femininity recognized the world over. With their compelling composition, glowing colour and Impressionist-inflected...
| Author | Carole G. Silver |
| ISBN | 0195121996 |
Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at large. Carole Silver here draws on sources...
| Author | Franny Moyle |
| ISBN | 0719521904 |
Desperate Romantics, a tie-in with a new BBC series, focuses on the scandals, rather than on the group’s ideas, social experiments or artistic development: Ruskin’s loveless marriage and critical championing of Millais, who then went off with Effie Ruskin, Rossetti’s various loves, above...
| Author | Arnie Fenner |
| ISBN | 1887424555 |
The Spectrum annual, now in its seventh year, has established itself as the premier venue for science-fiction art. Drawn from work created for advertisements, books, comics, magazines, art galleries, and the portfolios of some of the finest fantastic artists working today, the illustrations in...
Spectrum 12: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art
| Author | Cathy Fenner |
| ISBN | 1887424954 |
The increasing popularity of fantasy and science fiction themes in art is celebrated in the annual Spectrum series. The premier venue for such art, each lavishly illustrated volume is an invaluable resource, eagerly awaited by art directors, illustrators, and readers alike. Drawn from books, comics,...
| Author | Jeff A. Menges |
| ISBN | 0486446859 |
This stunning treasury features full-page plates of the finest works by the famed English artist, Arthur Rackham (1867–1939). A leading figure in the early twentieth century's Golden Age of Illustration, Rackham interpreted scenes from such diverse material as fairy tales, Wagnerian opera,...
| Author | Gay Daly |
| ISBN | 0899194508 |
Strange, awkward title, although it is pretty literal. This is pretty repetitive. After about the 3rd Pre-Raphaelite, I got the picture that they all had strange relationships with women. I think this was most interesting as a portrait of Victorian married life among the bohemian set. Man, those guys...
| Author | Wendy Beckett |
| ISBN | 0751307173 |
This handsome tome is packed to the gills with paintings, and while readers might disagree with any of Sister Wendy Beckett's choices (that's half the fun, perhaps), there are still hundreds of unforgettable works of art that nearly any reader can appreciate. Most of the pictures, even those that seem...
| Author | Fiona MacCarthy |
| ISBN | 0571228615 |
From the prize winning author of William Morris comes a new biography of Edward Burne-Jones, the greatest British artist of the second half of the nineteenth century.
The angels on our Christmas cards, the stained glass in our churches, the great paintings in our galleries - Edward Burne-Jones's...
| Author | Philippe Jullian |
| ISBN | 0275742806 |
There have been few movements in the history of Western art as strange as that of the Decadents of the last quarter of the 19th Century. While public attention was preoccupied with the Impressionists, many painters were reacting in a totally different...and more imaginative way...to the grim horrors...
Essential Pre-Raphaelites
| Author | Lucinda Hawksley |
| ISBN | 1840845244 |
In 1848 a group of seven disillusioned artists, comprising the Rossettis, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, Frederic Stephens, Thomas Wooner, and James Collinson, formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Initially they were ridiculed in the art world for their pretension and subject...
Arthur Rackham: A Life with Illustration
| Author | James Hamilton |
| ISBN | 1857936345 |
The definitive and sumptuous biography of the one of the world's most collectible illustrators contains a richly detailed account of his life along with beautifully enchanting pictures.
Examining the work of the illustrator Arthur Rackham, this monograph traces his achievements...
| Author | Andrew Wyeth |
| ISBN | 0821225693 |
Why did I let this book rest on the shelf for several years before actually reading it? It's not an autobiography in the traditional sense, but I finished it feeling as if I'd actually met Wyeth. He describes his inspiration, thoughts, and techniques, as well as setting and season of a good many of his paintings....
| Author | Linda Nochlin |
| ISBN | 0140132228 |
Linda Nochlin is intelligent. She probably knows more about Art than 99.9999999% of those on the planet, and she certainly knows more about Art than I ever will. She shared so many insights, brought out so many facets of the many works she described in her book Realism that I was amazed and bored. My bad,...
| Author | Jan Marsh |
| ISBN | 0704301695 |
Who were those women who sat for the Pre-Raphaelite painters? Muses to an exclusively male genius, of tragic stature and uncertain health - were they indeed as passive as their portrait painters and their critics contrived to suggest? Jan Marsh reveals the actual lives behind the myth of the Pre-Raphaelite...
| Author | Christopher Wood |
| ISBN | 1841881163 |
Chart the rise and legacy of the Pre-Raphaelites and see how this most admired British art movement was born. Dozens of reproductions attest to these painters’ scrupulous attention to natural details: more than 40 artists are represented, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt,...
| Author | Anthony Hobson |
| ISBN | 0714828645 |
I finally had a chance to read this book through from cover to cover as opposed to drooling over the pictures for the past year. Hobson has written a very thorough exploration of Waterhouse as an artist. He has also done an excellent job of placing Waterhouse in perspective with his peers and with the art...
Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius
| Author | Nikolaus Pevsner |
| ISBN | 0140137149 |
Moving from William Morris to Walter Gropius, taking in artists and architects from Britain, Europe and the USA, the author shows how the foundation of the best that remains today was laid by a small group of people who thought and taught as well as designed. First published in 1936 and twice revised since...
Alphonse Mucha: The Spirit of Art Nouveau
| Author | Victor Arwas |
| ISBN | 0300074190 |
Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) was one of the most important decorative artists working in Paris at the turn of the century. His distinctive and original posters and his decorative panels in le style Mucha became almost synonymous with French Art Nouveau. The admirer and iconographer of Sarah Bernhardt,...
Edvard Munch: Behind the Scream
| Author | Sue Prideaux |
| ISBN | 0300110243 |
Although almost everyone recognizes Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream, hardly anyone knows much about the man. What kind of person could have created this universal image, one that so vividly expressed all the uncertainties of the twentieth century? What kind of experiences did he have?...
| Author | Manfred Heiting |
| ISBN | 3822855561 |
Taschen is my favorite art book publisher. They have a variety of art books and my favorites are their icon series-small books filled with compelling images.
I actually had a little obsession near the end of my high school years with collecting these art books, which inevitably led to my discovery...
