For Wednesday's class we're going to take a quick look at a movement that took place in England (and to a lesser degree in America) over the the long span of the second half of the 19th century: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. This ties in directly with the unit you are currently studying in Heather Castro's Art History III course.
The members of the PRB, and those allied with their core ideas, believed in the unity of art and society, a unity that they believed was being torn apart by industrial capitalism. A good overview of the movement can be found at this link from The British Library.
The Victorian Web has a more extensive selection of PRB related links.
For Wednesday, September 11, read:
1. Christina Rossetti's famous poem Goblin Market
2. Her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Jenny
3. William Morris's essay Useful Work vs Useless Toil
See also the School of Life animated videos on John Ruskin, and William Morris.
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