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 ...
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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 prot???g??? 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 R???union des mus???es nationaux, Mus???e 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 Mus???e 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.] Published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Distributed by Yale University Press
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Like New in Like New jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Metropolitan Museum of Art/Abrams, 1998. Folio. Green cloth boards stamped in gold with brown endpapers. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new. A fine copy of this monograph on the works of Edward Burne-Jones. 360 pages. ISBN: 0870998587. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York. We Buy Books! Individual titles, libraries, collections. Message us if you have books to sell!
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Very Good. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, 1998. 1st edition. 4to. xi, 361pp. Illus. Very Good book. Very Good dust jacket. (England, painting, Pre-Raphaelitism, exhibition catalogs) Inquire if you need further information. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.
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Very Good. 1998. 1St Edition. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Folio. xi & 361 pp. Profusely illustrated. Slight shelf wear to dust jacket. Top corners bumped. Altogether a copy in Very Good condition. Very Good. (Subject: Art & Graphic Design).
