Please join Historians
of British Art and The English-Speaking Union for a preview of
the exhibition Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde Thursday, May 24,
2012 6.30 - 8.30 pm.
In September 2012,
Tate Britain (London) will open the much-anticipated exhibition Pre-Raphaelites:
Victorian Avant-Garde. Inspired by early Renaissance painting and led by
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, and John Everett Millais, the
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood rebelled against the establishment of the mid-19th
century and became Britain’s first modern art movement. This major exhibition
will bring together more than 150 works in different media, including painting,
sculpture, photography, and the applied arts, revealing the Pre-Raphaelites to
be advanced in their approach to every genre.
After closing at Tate in January 2013, this exhibition will move to the
National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and then to Moscow and Tokyo. Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian
Avant-Garde has been co-curated by Tim Barringer (Yale University),
Jason Rosenfeld (Marymount Manhattan University, New York), and Alison Smith
(Tate London).
This evening, co-curators Tim Barringer and Jason
Rosenfeld will give U.S. audiences an early look at this important
exhibition—addressing its key themes and its evolution as a project—during an
informal, richly illustrated conversation at The English-Speaking Union in
Manhattan. Their lively discussion will
be moderated by Peter Trippi, president of Historians of British Art and a
co-curator of the recent touring exhibition J.W.
Waterhouse: The Modern Pre-Raphaelite. The conversation will be followed by a wine
reception.
Dr.
Tim Barringer is Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art at Yale University. Among his publications are Reading the Pre-Raphaelites (1998), Men
at Work (2005), and Opulence and Anxiety (2007). He co-curated Tate’s exhibition American
Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States, 1825-1880 (2002), and
also Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds
(Yale, 2007). This year he contributed
an essay to the catalogue accompanying the Royal Academy’s exhibition, David
Hockney: A Bigger Picture.
Dr. Jason Rosenfeld is Distinguished Chair and Professor of Art
History at Marymount Manhattan College. He authored the new monograph on John
Everett Millais (Phaidon Press) and co-curated the Millais retrospective that
toured the world in 2007-2008. He
contributed an essay to the monograph Stephen Hannock (2009, Hudson
Hills Press), and is curator of that artist’s exhibition, presently on view at
the Marlborough Gallery, New York, and then traveling to the Marlborough
Gallery, London.
Location
The
English-Speaking Union
U.S. National
Headquarters
144 East 39th
Street (between Lexington and Third Avenues)
New York,
NY 10016
212.818.1200
Advance registration is required
$20 for members of
HBA and ESU; $25 for non-members.
Payment may be
made by credit card, or by check payable to “The English-Speaking Union.”
Checks should be
mailed to Ms. Caitlin Murphy, The English-Speaking Union, 144 East 39th Street,
New York, NY 10016. In all cases, you
will receive a confirmation of payment if you have provided your email address.
Questions?
For content-related questions, please email Peter
Trippi at ptrippi@aol.com. For questions about payment, please email Caitlin
Murphy at cmurphy@esuus.org.
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John Everett Millais (1829-1896), Isabella, 1848-9, Oil on canvas, 102.9 x
142.9 cm, National Museums Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery
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