{"product_id":"the-germ-origins-and-progenies-of-pre-raphaelite-interart-aesthetics-9783034302982","title":"The Germ : Origins and Progenies of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was in \u003ci\u003eThe Germ \u003c\/i\u003e(1850), the first British magazine with an aesthetic manifesto, that the interart theories of the Pre-Raphaelites took shape. The thirteen young contributors advocated an ethical approach to art while at the same time acknowledging self-referentiality and meta-discoursivity. They defined the specificity of each mode of artistic expression while exploring the dynamic between word and image, moving from realism towards Symbolism and even anticipating Surrealism. The Aesthetes and Decadents were fascinated; the Modernists felt challenged.\u003cbr\u003e Later in the twentieth century a succession of reappraisals transformed the Pre-Raphaelites into a well-marketed group of eccentrics, but neglected the complexity of their cross-cultural, verbal\/visual art. This study aims to explain why claims about the autonomy and interrelatedness of the arts, expressed in the form of a provocative monthly journal, proved so influential as to be a source of inspiration for the \u003ci\u003eOxford and Cambridge Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Century Guild Hobby Horse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Yellow Book\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Savoy\u003c\/i\u003e, and even for Modernist periodicals. Often regarded as a juvenile venture, \u003ci\u003eThe Germ \u003c\/i\u003ewas in fact a laboratory for expressive forms, themes, and ideas that had an enormous impact on the history of British culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e«In their fresh reassessment of ‘The Germ’, its ambitions, its paradoxes, and its self-reflexivity, the authors provide a useful literary and critical addition to the recent inclusion of Pre-Raphaelitism within the broader context of European Avant-gardes [...].» (Béatrice Laurent, Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens 79, 2014)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents: Origins and Propagations – A Biographical Perspective on \u003ci\u003eThe Germ\u003c\/i\u003e – Aesthetic Prose in \u003ci\u003eThe Germ\u003c\/i\u003e: Moulding a Literary Mode – Germinal Poetical Imageries: From Pre-Raphaelism to the \u003ci\u003eFin de Siècle\u003c\/i\u003e and Modernism – Legacies: \u003ci\u003eThe Germ\u003c\/i\u003e as the Prototype of the Artist’s Magazine.","brand":"Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043610263895,"sku":"9783034302982","price":49.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9783034302982.jpg?v=1750958870","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-germ-origins-and-progenies-of-pre-raphaelite-interart-aesthetics-9783034302982","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}