James Smetham : artist, author, Pre-Raphaelite associate
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James Smetham : artist, author, Pre-Raphaelite associate
Scolar Press , Ashgate, c1995
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 172-188) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is an assessment of James Smetham, the author and artist associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. Biographical information is also supplied.
Table of Contents
- "With life's strange burdens much opprest" - an introduction to James Smetham. "A path to tread" - a biographical overview of Smetham's life and career
- "Something rescued from the form of oblivion" - Smetham's squaring, monumentalism and ventilation
- "A puzzling posture in the Universe" - Smetham as artist and Methodist
- "One of the reliefs of life" - Smetham the poet
- "Full of restless variety": - Smetham's impressions of contemporary literary and artistic worlds
- "Friends in council" - William Davies, John Ruskin and Frederick J. Shields
- "A niche in the charmed circle" - Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite circle
- painted sermons - scriptural subjects and "idylls in oil"
- "murder crowing in the press" - criticism, audiences, and studio life
- "all very serious art is dreadfully dependent upon money" - the art market and patronage
- "glittering fragments" - the final years
- "for love of beauty, not applause" - Smetham in context.
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