[audiobook] The Social Worlds of Nineteenth-Century Chamber Music: Composers; Consumers; Communities by Marie Sumner Lott at Arts-Photography

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In this study; first published in 1979; Landow contends that Huntrsquo;s version of Pre-Raphaelitism concerned itself primarily with an elaborate system of painterly symbolism rather than with a photographic realism as has been usually supposed. Like Ruskin; Hunt believed that a symbolism based on scriptural typology ndash; the method of finding anticipations of Christ in Hebrew history ndash; could produce an ideal art that would solve the problems of Victorian painting. According to Hunt; this elaborate symbolism could simultaneously avoid the dangers of materialism inherent in a realistic style; the dead conventionalism of academic art; and the sentimentality of much contemporary painting. George Landow examines Huntrsquo;s work in the context of this argument and; drawing on much unknown or previously inaccessible material; shows how he used texts; frames; and symbols to create a complex art of mediation that became increasingly visionary as the artist grew older. This book is ideal for students of art history.