Edward Burne-Jones / edited by Alison Smith with contributions by Tim Batchelor, Suzanne Fagence Cooper, Colin Cruise, Charlotte Gere, Elizabeth Prettejohn and Nicholas Tromans.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Edward Burne-Jones held at Tate Britain, London, 24 October 2018 - 24 February 2019. Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-226) and index.
Contents:
Burne-Jones as Designer / Suzanne Fagence Cooper. At Work: Burne-Jones's Studio, Materials and Techniques / Alison Smith -- 'Girlish Dream': Burne-Jones in the Twentieth Century / Nicholas Tromans -- Apprentice to Master: 1856-70 / Alison Smith -- 'An impassioned imagination': Burne-Jones as a Draughtsman / Colin Cruise -- Burne-Jones on Show: Exhibition Pictures, 1877-98 / Alison Smith -- Portraits / Charlotte Gere -- The Series Paintings / Elizabeth Prettejohn -- Burne-Jones as Designer / Suzanne Fagence Cooper.
Summary:
Edward Burne-Jones is widely regarded as one of the great British artists, and the only Pre-Raphaelite to achieve world-wide recognition through the elusive mythic language he developed across a range of media. Accompanying a major exhibition of Burne-Jones's work at Tate Britain, this beautifully-designed book looks at what was distinctive about Burne-Jones's art, and charts the course through which he emerged from being an outsider, to being revered as one of the great artists of the European fin de siecle. It shows how he maintained his vision through meticulous attention to craftsmanship and the repetition of key motifs. It examines the extraordinary combination of flattening and illusionistic effects in Burne-Jones's work, the artist's preoccupation with romance and horror, and the emphasis he placed on the potential of physical and symbolic objects within an image to simultaneously unlock and obfuscate meaning. Illustrated works show how Burne-Jones's highly subjective approach to storytelling resulted in a paradoxical combination of seriality and stasis, making the image unsettling in narrative and emotional terms.
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