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Publication September 2007
297 x 235 mm
272 pp
180 colour and 20 black and white illustrations
Hardback/Paperback
ISBN 978 185437 746 3 (Hb)
ISBN 978 185437 667 1 (Pb)
£35.00/£24.99
As a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, John Everett Millais spearheaded one of the most radically modern artistic groups in the history of British art. He went on to become the president of the Royal Academy and one of the most successful artists of his era.
Traditionally, the late Millais has been presented as an establishment figure who swapped artistic innovation for commercial gain. For the first time this book allows us to see Millais in the context of his whole career, arguing that his late works, especially his landscapes, are as dramatic in their freshness of vision as those of his Pre-Raphaelite period.
Millais is revealed as a complex artist, as interested in Realism as he was in Aestheticism, with significant and surprising links to Manet, Whistler and Sargent, who helped to develop a resurgence in taste for British eighteenth-century art.
The most complete and up to date publication available on Millais, the book features chapters on ‘Early Works’; ‘Romance’; ‘Aestheticism’; ‘The Grand Tradition’; ‘Fancy Pictures’; ‘Society Portraits’ and ‘Millais in Scotland: Late Landscapes’. It also includes a full chronology.
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.
Exhibition
Tate Britain, London
26 September 2007 –13 January 2008
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
15 February – 18 May 2008
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukuoka
June – August 2008
The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo
August – October 2008
