Catalog of an exhibition held at Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 21 September 2023 - 18 February 2024. Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-237).
Contents:
3. The electric fairy : Loie Fuller (1862-1928) / Matthew Winterbottom. ‘The age of colour’ : Victorian Britain (1837-1901) / Clare Pollard -- Colour in Ruskin’s teachings / Colin Harrison -- Turner’s paintings of Venice / Colin Harrison -- ‘The Gothic school of colour’ : reviving the Hues of the middle ages / Charlotte Ribeyrol -- Unweaving the rainbow : nature's colours in art, fashion and design / Madeline Hewitson -- Pretty plant photographers or pioneers? Anna Atkins and Sarah Angelina Acland / Lena Fritsch -- Object in focus : Harry Emanuel, ‘Hummingbird Necklace’ (1865) / Madeline Hewitson -- 2. Colour for all. -- ‘The triumph of colour’ : the synthetic colour revolution / Matthew Winterbottom – ‘More brilliant tints than fancy could conceive’ – exhibiting colour : the 1862 International Exhibition / Matthew Winterbottom -- Object in focus : the Great Bookcase : between medieval and Victorian colour / Tea Ghigo -- Surface matters : skin colour, race and materiality / Madeline Hewitson – ‘Wedding archaeology with art’ : the rediscovery of ancient polychromy / Charlotte Ribeyrol -- Journey for colour : artist-travellers and British orientalism / Madeline Hewitson -- Object in focus : Owen Jones, the history of Joseph and his brethren (1865) / Madeline Hewitson -- ‘The gorgeous contributions of India’ : sourcing colour in the British empire / Matthew Winterbottom and Madeline Hewitson -- 3. Colour for colour's sake -- Colour for colour’s sake / Stefano Evangelista and Charlotte Ribeyrol -- Object in focus : James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne : blue and gold, St Mark’s Venice (1980) / Madeline Hewitson -- Queer colours / Stefano Evangelista ; Object in focus : Fin-de-siecle Tanagras / Charlotte Ribeyrol -- Object in focus : Japanese board game/ Clare Pollard -- The electric fairy : Loie Fuller (1862-1928) / Matthew Winterbottom.
Summary:
"This book presents a dazzling version of the Victorian world, surprisingly one of the most colourful periods in history. It dispels the myth that the Victorian era was a dreary landscape of ‘dark satanic mills’ and cities choked with smog. Instead, it shows how developments in art, science and technology resulted in an explosion of colour that was embraced by artists, designers and regular people of the nineteenth century"-- Provided by publisher.
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