The Last Pre-Raphaelite : Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination

MacCarthy, Fiona; Edward Burne-Jones

ISBN 10: 0674065794 / ISBN 13: 9780674065796

Published by Harvard University Press, 2012

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Orderbook - wwb -----THE LAST PRE-RAPHAELITE: EDWARD BURNE-JONES AND THE VICTORIAN IMAGINATION. Fiona MacCarthy. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 2012. Published in the UK by Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 2011. 696 pp. With 96 ills. (31 col. ). 24 x 16 cm. ISBN 9780674065796 In English. Artist(s) : Burne-Jones, Edward Indexing: Western, Europe â " Great Britain â " 1800-1900 â " Several Media, (Auto) Biography Plans: 71 Worldwide Number: 148373Hardcover $35.00x (libraries receive a 10% discount on this title) 99 / CHANGE0722022; *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened -- 696 pp. ; 96 illus. (31 in color. ) -- with a bonus offer--; In Fiona MacCarthy?s riveting account, Burne-Jones?s exchange of faith for art places him at the intersection of the nineteenth century and the Modern, as he leads us forward from Victorian mores and attitudes to the psychological, sexual, and artistic audacity that would characterize the early twentieth century. (20120211).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Last Pre-Raphaelite : Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674065794
• ISBN 13: 9780674065796
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

While still a student at Oxford, Edward Burne-Jones formed a friendship and made a renunciation that would shape art history. The friendship was with William Morris, with whom he would occupy the social and intellectual center of the era's cult of beauty. The renunciation was of his intention to enter the clergy, when he-together with Morris-vowed to throw over the Church in favor of art. In Fiona MacCarthy's riveting account of Burne-Jones's life, that exchange of faith for art places him at the intersection of the nineteenth century and the Modern, as he leads us forward from Victorian mores and attitudes to the psychological, sexual, and artistic audacity that would characterize the early twentieth century.

In MacCarthy's hands, Burne-Jones emerges as a great visionary painter, a master of mystic reverie, and a pivotal late nineteenth-century cultural and artistic figure. Lavishly illustrated with color plates, The Last Pre-Raphaelite shows that Burne-Jones's influence extended far beyond his own circle to Freudian Vienna and the delicately gilded erotic dream paintings of Gustav Klimt, the Swiss Symbolist painter Ferdinand Hodler, and the young Pablo Picasso and the Catalan painters.

Drawing on extensive research, MacCarthy offers a fresh perspective on the achievement of Burne-Jones, a precursor to the Modern, and tells the dramatic, fascinating story of this peculiarly captivating and elusive man.

About the Author

Fiona MacCarthy was the author of William Morris: A Life for Our Time, winner of the Wolfson History Prize and the Writers’ Guild Nonfiction Award, and the well-received Byron: Life and Legend. A former design correspondent for The Guardian and architecture critic for The Observer, she curated exhibits at the Victoria & Albert Museum and the National Portrait Gallery in London. MacCarthy was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Senior Fellow at the Royal College of Art.