'Comprehensively illustrated, clearly written and introduces the reader to many invigorating ideas' - TLS

'This book goes a long way in offering some fresh visions of a favourite subject' - Susan P. Casteras, Pre-Raphaelite Studies

When the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood met in lodgings in London's Gower Street in 1848, they were to produce a statement of ideas which would revolutionise art practice in Victorian England. Elizabeth Prettejohn explores why Pre-Raphaelite art retains the power to fascinate, and often to shock, a century and a half later.

304pp; 240 illustrations (200 colour)