BELL, QUENTIN - A New and Noble School - the Pre-Raphaelites

London, Macdonald. 1982, First Edition. (ISBN: 0356085465). Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Very Good+ unmarked copy with complete dustjacket. The author, artist and critic, second son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf, and Professor Emeritus, presents an examination of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. He discusses the origins, its relationship to other schools of art and to John Ruskin, the fierce opposition and rapid success of the mivement, its swift and unexplained decline and its strange and unpredictable revival under the leadership of Rossetti. 50 black and white and 16 full colour plates show the range of the artists' work. NOT EX LIB 22. Very Good/Very Good.

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