Title
The last Pre-Raphaelite [electronic resource] : Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian imagination / Fiona MacCarthy.
ISBN
9780674065567 electronic book
9780674065796
Publication Details
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2012, c2011.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 629 p.) : ill.
Call Number
ND497.B8 M33 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
759.2 B
Summary
From the prize-winning author of William Morris comes a new biography of Edward Burne-Jones, the greatest British artist of the second half of the nineteenth century. The angels on our Christmas cards, the stained glass in our churches, the great paintings in our galleries - Edward Burne-Jones's work is all around us. The most admired British artist of his generation, he was a leading figure with Oscar Wilde in the aesthetic movement of the 1880s, inventing what became a widespread 'Burne-Jones look'. The bridge between Victorian and modern art, he influenced not just his immediate circle but artists such as Klimt and Picasso. In this gripping book Fiona MacCarthy explores and re-evaluates his art and life - his battle against vicious public hostility, the romantic susceptibility to female beauty that would inspire his art and ruin his marriage, his ill health and depressive sensibility, the devastating rift with his great friend and collaborator William Morris as their views on art and politics diverged. With new research and fresh historical perspective, The Last Pre-Raphaelite tells the extraordinary, dramatic story of Burne-Jones as an artist, a key figure in Victorian society and a peculiarly captivating man.
Note
"First published in 2011 by Faber and Faber, Ltd.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Access limited to authorized users.
Source of Description
Description based on print version record.
Birmingham 1833-52
Oxford 1853-5
Northern France 1855
Early London 1856-7
Little Holland House 1858
First Italian Journey 1859
Russell Place 1860-2
Second Italian Journey 1862
Great Russell Street 1862-4
Kensington Square 1865-7
The Grange, One 1868-71
Third Italian Journey 1871
The Grange, Two 1872
Fourth Italian Journey 1873
The Grange, Three 1874-6
The Grosvenor Gallery 1877-80
Rottingdean, one 1881-2
The Grange, four 1883
The Grange, five 1884
Rome 1885
The Royal Academy 1885-7
Rottingdean, two 1888-9
Mells 1890-3
Kelmscott, one 1894-5
Kelmscott, two 1895-6
Avalon 1897-8
Memorials 1898-1916.
