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Art Modern (late 19th Century To 1945)

Beauty's Awakening

Drawings by the Pre-Raphaelites and Their Contemporaries from the Lanigan Collection

by (author) Dennis T. Lanigan & Christopher Newell

Publisher
National Gallery of Canada
Initial publish date
Oct 2015
Category
Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780888849328
    Publish Date
    Oct 2015
    List Price
    $40.00

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In his essay Dr. Dennis T. Lanigan tells the story of how his collection was formed, describing his 40 year journey from someone with no particular art education but with “a good eye” into the holder of a collection considered unrivaled among private and public collections in North America. His exhaustive studies of the drawings in his possession and the outcome of his research form the body of the publication. Pre-Raphaelite scholar Christopher Newell details the extraordinary effect the group had on contemporary art and artists and recounts how they transformed drawing into an autonomous art form to be viewed as “the chief signifier of creativity.” Accompanied by 80 individual entries, each illustrated with a full-page colour plate.

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