Hard cover with dust jacket kept in mylar cover. Published in conjunction with exhibition at the NY Metropolitan 1998. Beautiful over sized art book, 376 pages, 152 color plates.

Edward Burne-Jones, Victorian Artist-Dreamer

Arts & Photography

Wildman, Stephen

Wildman et al., Stephen

Individual Artists

Metropolitan Museum of Art

"In the palace of art there are many chambers, and that of which Mr. Burne-Jones holds the key is a wondrous museum. His imagination, his fertility of invention, his exquisiteness of work, his remarkable gifts as a colorist―all these things constitute a brilliant distinction." With these words the American critic and novelist Henry James, in 1877, sang the praises of Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898), the British painter and designer whose work was creating a sensation at the recently opened Grosvenor Gallery in London.  A pupil of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and a protégé 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. By the 1890s, however, Burne-Jones was ceding popularity to the growing taste for abstraction, and until recently he was all but ignored. Today, one hundred years after his death, in what John Christian, the leading authority on the artist, in this volume terms a "critical somersault," Burne-Jones is once again considered the greatest British painter of the nineteenth century―after only Turner and perhaps Constable.  Edward Burne-Jones, Victorian Artist-Dreamer is the catalogue for the first exhibition in the United States devoted to this painter. The works in the exhibition, organized under the auspices of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, England, and the Réunion des musées nationaux, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, were selected by Stephen Wildman, Curator of the Ruskin Library at Lancaster University, England.  A prodigiously productive artist, 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 were presented in the exhibition, with full-color and black-and-white reproductions of each of the 173 works included in the catalogue. Arranged chronologically, the volume is divided into eight sections, each introduced by a vibrant and broadly informative text by John Christian, followed by catalogue entries written by Mr. Wildman and Mr. Christian. An essay by the British scholar Alan Crawford explores Burne-Jones's contribution as a decorative artist, and an essay by Laurence des Cars, Curator at the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, deals with the artist's reputation and influence in France and Belgium.  [This book was originally published in 1998 and has gone out of print. This edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.]

Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer

Christian, John J.

History & Criticism

Book by Wildman, Stephen, Marsh, Jan, Christian, John

Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England

Marsh, Jan

Christian, John

Art Services International

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Art Services Intl

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Waking Dreams: The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites from the Delaware Art Museum

Delaware Art Museum

The catalogue of an exhibition at the Tate Gallery, London, 9 March - 29 May 2000. 260 works are described and illustrated in color.

Ruskin, Turner, and the Pre-Raphaelites

Ruskin, John

Warrell, Ian

HEWISON, Robert

Tate Britain (Gallery)

Turner, J.M.W.

Tate Gallery Pubn

* First book on the Ashmolean collection in over 30 years* Ashmolean has one of the finest collection of Ruskin works anywhere in the worldJohn Ruskin assembled 1470 diverse works of art for use in the Drawing School he founded at Oxford in 1871. They included drawings by himself and other artists, prints and photographs. This book focuses on highlights of works produced by Ruskin himself. Drawings by John Ruskin are uniquely interesting. Unlike those of a professional artist they were not made in preparation for finished paintings or as works in their own right. Every one - and they number several thousand, depending on what can be considered a separate drawing - is a record of something seen, initially as a memorandum of that observation but with the potential to illustrate his writings or for educational purposes, notably to form part of the teaching collection of the Drawing School he established after election as Slade Professor of Fine Art at Oxford University. In addition, because of the range of interests of arguably the only true polymath of his time, every drawing touches on some interesting aspect of art and architecture, landscape and travel, botany and natural history, often connected with his writings and lectures. Ruskin's life is one of the best documented of any in the 19th century, through letters, diaries and the many autobiographical revelations in his published writings: this allows the opportunity to give almost any drawing a level of context impossible for any other artist. When there is so much background information, a single drawing reveals much about its creator, and becomes a window into the great sprawling edifice of his life and work.

An Instinct to Draw: John Ruskin's Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum

Ashmolean Museum

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