The last Pre-Raphaelite Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian imagination /
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
Imprint: | Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2012. |
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Online Access: | Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete. |
Summary: | 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. |
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Item Description: | "First published in 2011 by Faber and Faber ltd." |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780674065567 (online) 9780674068384 (online) |
Author Notes: | Fiona MacCarthy is one of Britain's most acclaimed biographers, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and the author of numerous books, including William Morris: A Life for Our Time . |