Pre-Raphaelitism and International Modernisms Symposium: Introduction: Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde

March 2013 - Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art and director of graduate studies, Yale University. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848–1900, this symposium explored Britain's first avant-garde art movement in the context of other international modernisms. The young members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (formed in 1848) shook the art world of mid-19th-century Britain by rejecting traditional approaches to painting. Academics and curators consider modern art and craft movements in these lectures recorded on March 8 and 9, 2013. This program was coordinated with and supported by the Department of the History of Art, Yale University.