Ford Madox Brown: Pre-Raphaelite Pioneer
Ford Madox Brown had already pioneered a style of painting which came to be known as Pre-Raphaelite before the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in 1848. His beautifully observed landscapes anticipated the open-air effects of the Impressionists. His art was anti-academic, rejecting easy solutions, prettiness, and conventional Victorian formulae. He depicted children without sentimentality and poor people without condescension. This major monograph provides a general introduction to Brown's art based on new research; all of his important paintings are included, each one is illustrated and described.
Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd
Published: United Kingdom, 1 September 2011
Format: Hardcover, 336 pages
Age Range: 0+
Other Information: 224 colour illustrations
Dimensions: 27.7 x 21.8 x 3.6 centimeters (1.88 kg)
Writer: Julian Treuherz, Kenneth Bendiner, Angela Thirlwell
Table of ContentsCONTENTS PAGE Director's Foreword (to come) Acknowledgements Ford Madox Brown: Pre-Raphaelite Pioneer Julian Treuherz The Game of Life: Ford Madox Brown - A character study Angela Thirlwell Ford Madox Brown's Humour Kenneth Bendiner Ford Madox Brown in Manchester Julian Treuherz Chronology Catalogue Bibliography Image credits (to come)
Promotional InformationFord Madox Brown had already pioneered a style of painting which came to be known as Pre-Raphaelite before the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in 1848. His beautifully observed landscapes anticipated the open-air effects of the Impressionists. This title provides a general introduction to Brown's art based on fresh research.
About the AuthorJulian Treuherz was formerly a curator at Manchester Art Gallery, and then went on to direct the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool and the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight. His books include Victorian Painting (1993) and amongst the exhibitions he has organised are Hard Times, Social Realism in Victorian Art (1987), Alma-Tadema (1996), Rossetti (2004) and Art in the Age of Steam (2008). He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Liverpool University in 2009. Kenneth Bendimer is professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His publications include An Introduction to Victorian Painting (1985), Ford Madox Brown: Il Lavoro (Turin, 1991), The Art of Ford Madox Brown (1998), and Food in Painting from the Renaissance to the Present (2004). Angela Thirlwell is a biographer whose books include Into the Frame: The Four Loves of Ford Madox Brown (2010) and William and Lucy: The Other Rossettis (2003). She was a lecturer at the Faculty of Continuing Education at Birkbeck College, University of London for twenty years.