Art Modern (late 19th Century To 1945)
Beauty's Awakening
Drawings by the Pre-Raphaelites and Their Contemporaries from the Lanigan Collection
- Publisher
- National Gallery of Canada
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2015
- Category
- Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780888849328
- Publish Date
- Oct 2015
- List Price
- $40.00
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Description
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.