The last Pre-Raphaelite : Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian imagination / Fiona MacCarthy

Object Details

Notes

"First published in 2011 by Faber and Faber ltd."

Contents

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

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.

Data Source

Smithsonian Libraries

Date

2012

Author

MacCarthy, Fiona

Subject

Burne-Jones, Edward Coley 1833-1898

Type

Biography

Physical description

xxiv 629 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Place

Great Britain

Topic

Pre-Raphaelites

Record ID

siris_sil_1056595

Usage

CC0