This handsome volume is the first authoritative survey of one of the most intriguing periods of British art—the radically innovative decade of the 1860s. The book explores new developments in English painting of this period, focusing on the early work of Edward Burne-Jones, Frederic Leighton, Albert Moore, Edward Poynter, Simeon Solomon, and James McNeill Whistler, as well as on paintings by Frederick Sandys and the older G. F. Watts, and by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his Pre-Raphaelite colleagues Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. 
Allen Staley argues that engagement in the decorative arts, particularly by Burne-Jones, Moore, and Poynter at the outset of their careers, led to a transcending of traditional expectations of painting, making abstract formal qualities, or beauty for beauty's sake, the main goal. Rather than being about what it depicts, the painting itself becomes its own subject. The New Painting of the 1860s examines the interplay among the artists and the shared ambitions underlying their works, giving impetus to what would soon come to be known as the Aesthetic Movement.

The New Painting of the 1860s: Between the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aesthetic Movement (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art the Paul Mello)

Arts & Photography

STALEY, Allen

History & Criticism

Paul Mellon Centre

This authoritative and lavishly illustrated book explores a key theme within Victorian art and highlights an aspect of Pre-Raphaelitism that is often overlooked. Published to accompany a major touring exhibition Pre-Raphaelitie Vision: Truth to Nature is the first new study of landscape in Pre-Raphaelite painting for many years. It is an essential addition to the library of all those interested in Pre-Raphaelitism and the English landscape tradition.

Pre-Raphaelite Vision: Truth to Nature

Newall, Christopher

Tate

This is a 155 page limited edition soft cover book titled THE POST-PRE-RAPHAELITE PRINT:Etching, Illustration, Reproduction Engraving, and Photography in England in and Around the 1860's. Published in a limited edition of 1500 copies by Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Gallery in 1995. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Art-3-topshelf-middle) rareviewbooks

The Post-Pre-Raphaelite Print: Etching, Illustration, Reproductive Engraving, and Photography in England in and Around the 1860s

Wallach Art Gallery

Fletcher, Pamela M.

Evans, Martha M.

Ksander, Yael

Leavitt, Lisa R.

Rosenfeld, Jason M.

Tabor, Paul

A lavishly illustrated study of two preeminent eighteenth-century American artists. This book offers the first serious investigation of the relationship between eighteenth-century American Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley. For a brief span of time, the two expatriates had a close working relationship--which we can see substantially reflected in both the formal language and the subject matter of many of their best works--but it eventually turned into a rivalry.&nbsp; After a brief prologue discussing the earliest of West's depictions of historical events in America, painted prior to Copley's arrival in England, the book follows the year-by-year evolution of Copley's painting from 1775 to his death in 1815, with an underlying focus on his ongoing give-and-take relationship with West. It closes with examinations of hitherto little-known and unstudied major late paintings by both artists.

Copley and West in England 1775–1815: John Singleton Copley and Benjamin West in England 1775–1815

The Burlington Press

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