Elizabeth Prettejohn
{{short description|American art historian}}
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Elizabeth Francesca Prettejohn (born 15 May 1961){{cite web|title=CV 2011 |url=http://www.histfilfak.uu.se/digitalAssets/63/63966_Prettejohn_CV_2011.doc |accessdate=12 October 2012 }}{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} is an art historian and author of several books about art history. Her books have included Rossetti and his Circle (1997), The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites (2000) and Art for Art's Sake (2007). She has also co-edited and co-authored several publications. She has written exhibition catalogues and papers for journals such as The Burlington Magazine, Journal of Victorian Culture and Art Bulletin.
Education and career
Prettejohn was the professor of the history of art at the University of Bristol from 2005, before becoming head of the history of art at the University of York in 2012. She had also been the Professor of Modern Art at the University of Plymouth and (briefly) the curator of Paintings and Sculpture at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. She studied at Harvard University, where she got her Bachelor of Arts degree (summa cum laude), and at the Courtauld Institute of Art, where she got her Master of Arts degree in 1987 and PhD degree in 1991.{{cite web|title=The Courtauld Institute of Arts newsletter archive issue 21 : spring 2006 |url=http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/newsletter/spring_2006/p18-alumnotes.shtml |accessdate=10 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100920201743/http://courtauld.ac.uk/newsletter/spring_2006/p18-alumnotes.shtml |archivedate=20 September 2010 }} She is married to the Professor of Classics and Dean of Arts, Charles Martindale. [https://web.archive.org/web/20110610221001/http://www.bristol.ac.uk/classics/staff/martindale.html]
Publications
=Books=
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| Name
! Year ! Publisher ! Notes |
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| Modern painters, old masters : the art of imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War
| 2017 | |
| The Modernity of Ancient Sculpture: Greek Sculpture and Modern Art from Winckelmann to Picasso
| 2012 | |
| Art for Art's Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting
| 2007 | Yale University Press | Won the 2008 Historians of British Art Prize for |
| Beauty and Art 1750–2000
| 2005 | Part of the Oxford History of Art series |
| The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites
| 2000 | Tate Publishing and Princeton University Press | |
| Interpreting Sargent
| 1998 | Tate Publishing | |
| Rossetti and his Circle
| 1997 | Tate Publishing | |
| After the Pre-Raphaelites: Art and Aestheticism in Victorian England
| 1999 | Manchester University Press and Rutgers University Press | Editor |
| Frederic Leighton: Antiquity, Renaissance, Modernity
| 1999 | Yale University Press | Edited with Tim Barringer |
=Curated exhibitions=
References
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060901152115/http://www.english.uwosh.edu/roth/almatadema.htm Lawrence Alma-Tadema and the Modern City of Ancient Rome]
- [http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300135497 Art for Art's Sake]
External links
- [https://www.york.ac.uk/history-of-art/staff/liz-prettejohn/ Elizabeth Prettejohn], University of York
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Category:American art historians
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