中文简介：

本书汇集了一批杰出学者的见解，分析了美国拉斐尔派的历史和历史学，以及该运动如何从英国传播到美国。在英国侨民托马斯·查尔斯·法勒（Thomas Charles Farrer）的带领下，他也是英国知名批评家约翰·罗斯金（John Ruskin）的信徒，美国拉斐尔派艺术家遵循罗斯金的指示，近距离且忠实地描绘自然。该团体的许多成员都是废奴主义者（包括在美国内战期间在联邦军队服役的法勒），其中一些人创作了具有丰富政治潜台词的作品。

本书收录了菲迪亚·布里奇斯、亨利和托马斯·查尔斯·法勒、查尔斯·赫伯特·摩尔、亨利·罗德里克·纽曼和威廉·特罗斯特·理查兹等艺术家的作品，图文并茂，充满了富有洞察力的文章，探讨了罗斯金对美国艺术家的影响、水彩和摄影在他们作品中的作用、象征主义和对美国内战的含蓄引用等等。

英文简介：

Bringing together insights from a distinguished group of scholars, this beautiful book analyzes the history and historiography of the American Pre-Raphaelites, and how the movement made its way from England to America. Led by Thomas Charles Farrer―an English expatriate and acolyte of the hugely influential English critic John Ruskin―the American Pre-Raphaelite artists followed Ruskin's dictum to depict nature close up and with great fidelity. Many members of the group (including Farrer, who served in the Union army during the American Civil War) were also abolitionists, and several created works with a rich political subtext.

Featuring the work of artists such as Fidelia Bridges, Henry and Thomas Charles Farrer, Charles Herbert Moore, Henry Roderick Newman, and William Trost Richards, this generously illustrated volume is filled with insightful essays that explore the influence of Ruskin on the American artists, the role of watercolor and photography in their work, symbolism and veiled references to the Civil War, and much more.