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Wildman, Stephen, & John Christian, "Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer"

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Wildman, Stephen, & John Christian, "Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer"

Wildman, Stephen, & John Christian, "Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer"
Metropolitan Museum of Art | 1998 | ISBN: 0870998587/0870998595 | English | PDF | 372 pages | 78.73 Mb

A pupil of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and a protege of John Ruskin, Burne-Jones belonged to the second generation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, creating a narrative style of romantic symbolism steeped in medieval legend and fused with the influence of Italian Renaissance masters that was to have widespread influence on both British and European art. Within the sophisticated culture of the late Victorian period, Burne-Jones's star rose rapidly, and by the 1880s he had become the establishment artist par excellence, one of the most admired and sought-after painters in Europe. Burne-Jones, in addition to being a successful and innovative painter, was also an important force in the Arts and Crafts movement, working closely with his lifelong friend William Morris in the production of such decorative arts as ceramic tiles, stained glass, large-scale tapestries, and illustrated books to be printed at Morris's renowned Kelmscott Press. Examples of works in all these media are presented in the exhibition, with full-color and black-and-white reproductions of each of the 173 works included in the catalogue.
Director's Foreword
Acknowledgments
List of Lenders
Note to the Reader

A Critical Somersault
John Christian

Burne-Jones as a Decorative Artist
Alan Crawford

Burne-Jones and France
Laurence des Cars

Catalogue
Stephen Wildman and John Christian

Birmingham and Oxford

Pre-Raphaelite Apprenticeship

Ruskin and Italy

A New Voice

The "Seven Blissfullest Years"

Fame at Home and Abroad

The Artist Craftsman

"Pictured Abstractions"

Chronology
Bibliography
Index
Photograph Credits


Stephen Wildman is the Curator of the Ruskin Library, Lancaster University, England, and a noted authority on the art of the Pre-Raphaelites. His most recent publication is Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection (1995).

John Christian, the leading scholar on Burne-Jones, is the author of numerous essays and articles devoted to the artist's work. He is also a consultant at Christie's, London.

Alan Crawford specializes in the history of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century British architecture and decorative arts. The author of C. R. Ashbee: Architect, Designer and Romantic Socialist (1985) and a contributing author to Charles Rennie MacKintosh (1996), he is currently working on a history of the Arts and Crafts movement.

Laurence des Cars is Curator at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris.


Wildman, Stephen, & John Christian, "Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer"