- Paperback: 96 pages
- Publisher: Pavilion - Chrysalis; New edition edition (Aug 1 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1862051550
- ISBN-13: 978-1862051553
- Product Dimensions: 26.6 x 19.8 x 0.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 413 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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- #11 in Books > Arts & Photography > Artists, A-Z > ( M-O ) > Millais, John Everett
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Ash continues his series of tall, slim albums of the work of Victorian English artists with a presentation of the Pre-Raphaelite Millais (1829^-96). A child prodigy (his winning a prize at age nine so incensed older fellow art students that they hung him upside down until he fainted), Millais later figured in one of the biggest Victorian scandals, the annulment for nonconsummation of the marriage of art critic John Ruskin, whose young ex then married Millais. His facility allowed him to become prolific and prosperous, but he had to alter his style from Pre-Raphaelite precisionism to a more painterly manner that makes his portraiture, especially, immediately evident as contemporary to that of Whistler. Forty colorplates appear here, with ample annotations on facing pages; they include the famous Pre-Raphaelite works, Christ in the House of His Parents and Ophelia, and the much later Bubbles, one of the first fine artworks to be exploited by advertising, in its case, by the Pears soap company. Ray Olson
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A handsome large-format monograph on the career and major work of the most successful British painter of the Victorian era. Now in paperback, featuring 55 fine color reproductions. John Everett Millais (1829-96) was a child prodigy who entered the Royal Academy at the unprecedented age of eleven; he later rose to prominence as one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. In the view of the illustrious writer John Ruskin, he was ``the most powerful of them all.'' He achieved fame and wealth as the painter of some of the era's most popular pictures; he was equally at home with historical, literary, and religious themes as well as landscapes, genre paintings, and society portraits. His private life was considered scandalous (he ran off with Ruskin's wife), yet he rose to the highest ranks of British society. This elegant monograph celebrates the life and work of the great Pre-Raphaelite master, presenting 55 color reproductions of his finest work. Russell Ash's many works on art include The Impressionists and Their Art and Toulouse Lautrec: The Complete Posters. 96 pp 7 1/2 x 10 55 color illustrations
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3.0 out of 5 stars
good reproductions, plodding text,
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This review is from: Sir John Everett Millais (Paperback)
Well researched, lively and accurate, but really just a traditional account of Millais' career, telling us little new about the paintings. Ash stumbles on reviews which could have suggested a radical re-evaluation of Millais's late work, but he ignores the evidence. Nevertheless, it's wonderful to have reproductions of such neglected marvels as 'Caller Herrin' and the 'Ornithologist'. The reproductions are the thing here.
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3.0 out of 5 stars
good reproductions, plodding text,
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This review is from: Sir John Everett Millais (Paperback)
Well researched, lively and accurate, but really just a traditional account of Millais' career, telling us little new about the paintings. Ash stumbles on reviews which could have suggested a radical re-evaluation of Millais's late work, but he ignores the evidence. Nevertheless, it's wonderful to have reproductions of such neglected marvels as 'Caller Herrin' and the 'Ornithologist'. The reproductions are the thing here.
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