The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites by Elizabeth Prettejohn

This will make use of the recent dramatic increase in availability of digital images of works of art to examine a much wider range of artistic production, from the years 1880-1930, than the current scholarly literature acknowledges. Liz is working on a new project provisionally entitled Revaluations: The Story of British Art from the Death of Rossetti to the Stock Market Crash. Her book Modern Painters, Old Masters: The Art of Imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War (2017) argues that Victorian artists were, paradoxically, at their most original when they imitated the Old Masters most faithfully. Her work on the critical fortunes of Victorian art has led to a more general interest in taste and aesthetics, explored in her books Beauty and Art 1750-2000 (2005) and The Modernity of Ancient Sculpture: Greek Sculpture and Modern Art from Winckelmann to Picasso (2012). Her books on the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic Movement assessed the achievements of Victorian artists and placed them in relation to European Modernism. Liz’s research early in her career was motivated by curiosity about the low status of British (especially Victorian) art in academic art history. Relationships between philosophical aesthetics and art practice.Art Criticism (particularly Water Pater, Roger Fry).Receptions of ancient, medieval, and Renaissance art.

The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites by Elizabeth Prettejohn