Ford Madox BrownThe Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite: Works on Paper by Ford Madox Brown from Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Published by GILES in association with Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Publish Date — September 2008 (UK and USA)
Dimensions — 72 pages, 265 × 215 mm (8 3/8 × 10 3/8 in.), portrait
Illustrations — 40 colour and 15 b&w illustrations
Hardback price — UK£17.95 / US$34.95
ISBN — 1-904832-56-3
ISBN — 978-1-904832-56-0
Book Details (pdf) — Ford_Madox_Brown_ai_lowres.pdf
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Publication accompanies a major exhibition of works on paper by Ford Madox Brown opening at Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery (BMAG) in August 2008
Provides a complete catalogue listing of all 174 drawings, watercolours, designs and archive material by Madox Brown in the BMAG collection
Includes essays by Madox Brown specialists Angela Thirlwell, Tim Barringer and Laura MacCulloch
About the Book
Ford Madox Brown: The Unofficial Pre-Raphaelite – the third in a series of publications on Birmingham’s unique collection of 19th-century drawings – reassesses the work of this important artist, and reveals his achievements. Older than his contemporaries Holman Hunt, Millais, and pupil Rossetti, and never officially a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Ford Madox Brown was nonetheless a central figure within this major art movement. The creator of Work and The Last of England, whose art was marked by an unmistakable originality in the face of critical rejection and market failure, Madox Brown has until now remained a neglected presence in art history.
The volume includes three essays by leading Madox Brown specialists. The first, by Angela Thirlwell, deals with the broader aspects of the artist’s developments, setting his works in the context of his life. The second essay, by Tim Barringer, studies the difficulty of categorizing Madox Brown’s work, and his refusal to be defined by a particular artistic movement. The final essay, by Laura MacCulloch, looks specifically at Madox Brown’s illustrations, including his undervalued drawings for Shakespeare’s King Lear and Byron’s The Prisoner of Chillon.
The volume illustrates 54 selected drawings and works on paper, 40 of which are reproduced in colour. Each is accompanied by a specification, provenance, inscription and extended caption.
