Time Present and Time Past

The Art of John Everett Millais
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-25851-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

Reihe: British Art and Visual Culture since 1750 New Readings

John Everett Millais (1829-1896) is undoubtedly among the most important of Victorian artists. In his day, and our own, he remains also the most controversial. While, during his lifetime, controversy centred around his early Pre-Raphaelite paintings, in particular Christ in the house of his Parents (1850), during the twentieth century the most intense criticism has been directed towards Millais's later works, such as Bubbles (1886), which has been widely condemned as sentimental 'kitsch'. These later paintings have been held up as the epitome of the degradation of art, against which avant-garde and Modernist pioneers struggled. None of the existing literature on Millais addresses the fundamental problem that this double-identity reveals. While there is extensive material on the Pre-Raphaelite movement in general, Millais's own work after the 1850s is rarely discussed in detail, despite the fact that he lived and worked for another 30 years after his abandonment of the Pre-Raphaelite style. Time Present and Time Past: The Art of John Everett Millais presents the first comprehensive account of Millais's artistic career from beginning to end. The book considers the question of 'high' and 'low' cultural status in debates during Millais's own day, and in subsequent critical thinking, situating Millais's art as a whole within this cultural framework.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barlow, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Introduction: Millais and his critics; Millais's medievalism; Millais's Ruskin; Transitional acts; Anecdotal aestheticism; Interlude; Masculine impressions; Struggles for power; Ghosts and memorials; Time present and time past: Millais's legacy; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Paul Barlow is Lecturer at University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK.