Product Description

As a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, John Everett Millais spearheaded the most radically modern artistic group in the history of English art. This new publication will present for the first time a balanced view of the entirety of the artist's career, taking advantage of much new scholarship that allows us to see him in the fullness of his production, and to treat the late works of his career as being as remarkable and as vital as his Pre-Raphaelite productions. The catalogue relocates Millais' work to its proper place within prevailing currents of European artistic innovation and practice in the second half of the nineteenth-century. Millais is revealed as a complex artist who was as interested in Realism as he was in Aestheticism, with significant and surprising links to Manet, Carolus-Duran, Whistler and Sargent, and who helped to develop a resurgence in taste for British eighteenth-century art. The most complete and up to date publication available on Millais, this catalogue will feature chapters on 'Early Works'; 'Pictures of Romance'; 'Aestheticism'; 'The Grand Tradition'; 'Fancy Pictures'; 'Society Portraits' and 'Millais in Scotland: Late Landscapes'. It will also include a full chronology.

Product Details

• Published on: 2007-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

About the Author
Jason Rosenfeld is Assistant Professor of Art History at Marymount Manhattan College, New York. Alison Smith is a Curator at Tate Britain specialising in nineteenth-century British art.

Customer Reviews

Well bound and illustrated but short of biographical
The book combines pictures and text half and half. The pictures are mostly half the size of the page, but there are also full size pictures, and a great quality they are. This, actually, is the best in the book. The text, on the other hand, is too small in print, too narrowly restricted to the comment of the work in question or its relation to the time in the painter's life. But it lacks a more fluid narrative of the painter's life. Of course it is not a biography, but it doesn't need to be strictly a biography. It could, and should, have interrelated more fluidly both with the painter's life and his works. The language used isn't that technical, which I deeply appreciate.

Otherwise it's quite a complete set of his finest works. A delight to the eye, although the man keeps being a distant mystery to me, even with his paintings present.