Pamela Todd

This illustrated account, written by Pamela Todd, is a helpful companion and guide to the arts and crafts movement.

Following on from the success of Bloomsbury at Home, Pamela Todd turns her attention to the fiery group of young artists, designers and thinkers, led by the charismatic figure of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, which, in 1848, came together as the semi-secret Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. She explores their personalities and work through the places and haunts they made their own, presenting an intimate view of an important section of the avant-garde artistic community and placing it firmly in its Victorian context. The Pre-Raphaelites at Home is a book about personality and place. Biographies of each of the extensive cast of characters open the book, followed by a chronology of the significant events affecting the group over more than 60 years. In the succeeding chapters Rossetti, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt and Thomas Woolner are joined by William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and their intimate circle. Place by place, we are led through the story of subtly shifting allegiance, of love and deaths, adultery and illness, as the angry young men became successful, and, in some cases, even respectable. The lively narrative, packed with quotation from their own work, is lavishly illustrated with full colour reproductions of Pre-Raphaelite paintings and portraits, photographs of interiors, furnishings and textile designs, and black and white contemporary photographs of the artists, their homes and their studios, as well as line drawings, sketches and cartoons from Punch and material from the Illustrated London News.

Monet y Giverny, Renoir y Les Collettes, Pissarro y el Hermitage en Pontoise: los artistas impresionistas están inseparablemente ligados a sus hogares. Para cada uno de ellos, «hogar» tenía un signif

El ocio es algo que se asocia fácilmente con los impresionistas todos ellos intentan capturar un nuevo mundo de esparcimiento al mismo tiempo que ellos también lo disfrutan. Destacando una amplia y original selección de sus obras así como fotografías contemporáneas y reflexiones procedentes de diarios y cartas, este libro resucita muchos momentos felices que han quedado plasmados en las pinturas impresionistas. También documenta las pasiones, intereses y amores de los propios artistas: les seguimos por bulliciosos bares y restaurantes de París, pasamos días tranquilos con ellos en el río, vamos a pistas de patinaje sobre hielo, a mercados, a jardines y les acompañamos de vacaciones a la orilla del mar, cada vez aprendiendo más acerca de los propios artistas y observando su trabajo con una luz nueva.