Published on the occasion of an exhibition The poetry of drawing: Pre-raphaelite designs, studies and watercolours held at the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery January 29-May 15, 2011 and the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney June 17-September 4, 2011.
Contents:
Drawings and drawing : a Pre-Raphaelite introduction -- The flat, the antique and the life : academic drawing and the Pre-Raphaelites -- Direct and heartfelt : early influences on Pre-Raphaelite drawing -- Studying nature attentively : Ruskin and Pre-Raphaelitism -- Drawing the circle : portraits, self-portraits and caricatures -- Pre-Raphaelite compositions : drawing history, drawing modernity -- The poetry of illustration : disseminating Pre-Raphaelite drawing in the 1850s and 1860s -- Working drawings : design and pattern from the Pre-Raphaelites to the arts and crafts movement -- The aesthetics of drawing from the 1860s to the 1890s : the Pre-Raphaelite influence.
Subject Terms:
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. | Drawing, British -- 19th century -- Exhibitions. | Pre-Raphaelites -- Great Britain -- Exhibitions.
Contributors:
Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery. | Art Gallery of New South Wales.