Work
Work

Author: John Albert Walker

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13:

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Ford Madox Brown's fascinating realist painting Work takes as its heroes a group of labourers laying water pipes in The Mount, Hampstead. They are surrounded by a variety of picturesque characters representing the different classes and occupations of Victorian society, including two intellectuals - Thomas Carlyle and the Rev F. D. Maurice, whose ideas are crucial to the painting's meaning. This fully illustrated book tells the story behind Brown's masterpiece - its sources in popular art, its composition and its 'message', as well as its critical reception at the time and its impact on art in the twentieth century. Walker also examines the history of Hampstead in the 1850s, the wider issues of conflict and ideas in Victorian Britain and the social history of London with its cast of navvies, urchins and street vendors, philosophers, reformers and idlers

Ford Madox Brown
Ford Madox Brown

Author: Julian Treuherz

Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers

Published: 2011-10-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780856677007

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Published on the occasion of an exhibition held Sept. 24, 2011-Jan. 29, 2012 at Manchester Art Gallery and Feb. 25-June 3, 2012 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent.

Pre-Raphaelites
Pre-Raphaelites

Author: T. J. Barringer

Publisher: Tate Publishing(UK)

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13:

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Combining rebellion and revivalism, scientific precision and imaginative grandeur, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood shook the mid-19th-century art world. Featuring painting, photography, sculpture and applied arts, this book examines both well-known masterpieces and lesser-known works.

Into The Frame
Into The Frame

Author: Angela Thirlwell

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2011-02-22

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 144643513X

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Madox Brown, who grew up in France and Belgium before he came to England and won fame with paintings like 'The Last of England', was always an outsider, and the women he loved also burst out of stereotypes. His two wives, Elisabeth Bromley and Emma Hill, and his secret passions, the artist Marie Spartali and the author Mathilde Blind, were all remarkable personalities, from very different backgrounds. Their striving for self-expression, in an age that sought to suppress them, tells us much more about women's journey towards modern roles. Their lives - full of passion, sexual longing, tragedy and determination - take us from the English countryside and the artist's studio to a Europe in turmoil and revolution. These are not silent muses hidden in the shadow of a 'Master'. They step out of the shadows and into the picture, speaking with voices we can hear and understand.

Art of Ford Madox Brown
Art of Ford Madox Brown

Author: Kenneth Bendiner

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2010-11-01

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9780271044323

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This is the first comprehensive history devoted to the art of Ford Madox Brown (1821-93), in which his paintings establish him as a major figure in the most important new art movement of Victorian England, Pre-Raphaelitism. The book presents a new explanation of the development and basic aims of Pre-Raphaelite art as a whole and offers a revealing discussion of the power and importance of the humor and negative spirit that run throughout Brown's work. It also ties Brown's realist approach to British decorative taste at midcentury and redefines his place in the Aesthetic Movement, a cultural trend that dominated the latter half of the nineteenth century. In addition, the artist's socialist leanings and nationalistic tendencies, expressed in depictions of workers, children, women, and religious scenes, are set out more fully than in any previous literature on the artist.

Parade's End
Parade's End

Author: Ford Madox Ford

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2012-01-03

Total Pages: 914

ISBN-13: 0307744213

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This monumental novel, divided into four separate books, celebrates the end of an era, the irrevocable destruction of the comfortable, predictable society that vanished during World War I.

Fragmenting Modernism
Fragmenting Modernism

Author: Sara Haslam

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 9780719060557

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As a hero of the modernist literary revolution, Ford Madox Ford is a fascinating figure of the early 20th century. Haslam explores continuity and crisis in artistic life during the early 20th century through a study of Ford's work and life.

Reading the Pre-Raphaelites
Reading the Pre-Raphaelites

Author: Tim Barringer

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 9780300077872

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This illustrated book focuses on the Pre-Raphaelite artists and their radical departure from artistic conventions. Barringer explores the meanings encoded in Pre-Raphaelite paintings and analyses key pictures and their significance within the complex social and cultural matrix of 19th century Britain.

William and Lucy
William and Lucy

Author: Angela Thirlwell

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9780300102000

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The marriage of William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919) and Lucy Madox Brown (1843-1894) united two of the most resonant Pre-Raphaelite family names. Their passionate and ultimately tragic relationship - described here for the first time - provides a fresh perspective on nineteenth-century marriage and on the private lives of eminent Victorians. Sibling of Dante Gabriel and Christina Rossetti, William was one of the original Pre-Raphaelite 'Brothers,' a Bohemian, radical author, poet, critic, artist, connoisseur, biographer, historian, and taxman. Lucy, the intense, intellectual daughter of Ford Madox Brown, was an ambitious artist and biographer of Mary Shelley in spite of struggling with tuberculosis for nearly a decade. Drawing on hundreds of previously unpublished sources and a wealth of new visual material (including art by William, Lucy, and others of their circle and striking contemporary photographs), the book follows William and Lucy through their separate professional careers, marriage, continental travels, and Lucy’s illness and death. At the crossover between art history, literary criticism, social history, and biography, the book rewrites Pre-Raphaelite history and brings to life two fascinating people who were both of their time and ahead of it.