ISBN10: 0571228615, ISBN13: 9780571228614, [publisher: Faber & Faber, Limited] Hardcover A wonderful evocation of highly celebrated period of art history from one of the most acclaimed biographers of our time. From the prize winning author of William Morris comes a new biography of Edward Burne-Jones, the greatest British artist of the second half of the nineteenth century. The angels on our Christmas cards, the stained glass in our churches, the great paintings in our galleries - Edward Burne-Jones' work is all around us. The most admired British artist of his generation, he was a leading figure with Oscar Wilde in the aesthetic movement of the 1880s, inventing what became a widespread 'Burne-Jones look'. The bridge between Victorian and modern art, he influenced not just his immediate circle but artists such as Klimt and Picasso. In this gripping book Fiona MacCarthy explores and re-evaluates his art and life - his battle against vicious public hostility, the romantic susceptibility to female beauty that would inspire his art and ruin his marriage, his ill health and depressive sensibility, the devastating rift with his great friend and collaborator William Morris as their views on art and politics diverged. With new research and fresh historical perspective, The Last Pre-Raphaelite tells the extraordinary, dramatic story of Burne-Jones as an artist, a key figure in Victorian society and a peculiarly captivating man. 2011, First edition, first ...

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Faber & Faber, Date: 2011. Hardcover. As New/As New. The very best biographies recreate not just the life of their prime subjects but also that of their worlds. Fiona MacCarthy's fine new biography of Sir Edward Burne-Jones relates the story of his life in impressive detail as well as beautifully depicting the artistic and social milieu in which he moved. And what a glorious milieu it was: Pre-Raphaelitism, Symbolism, and Aestheticism all have their claims to Burne-Jones, but he can no more be defined by a single school than could any of his friends and associates throughout his rich life: Swinburne, Ruskin, Wilde, Whistler, Beardsley, Morris, to name only a few. It was a magnificent age in which to live, and in many ways Burne-Jones was the epitome of the best it had to offer in his appreciation for dreamy beauty in all its manifestations. Burne Jones was born plain Edward Jones in the industrial city of Birmingham. Never receiving much formal art training, he exhibited his great artistic ability from an early age. Falling under the spell of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the other Pre-Raphaelites, he began painting in and adding to their style, encouraged by several long trips to Italy and France. He fell in love with and eventually married a lovely girl several years his junior, Georgiana Macdonald, whose large family made him brother in law to the painter Edward Poynter and eventually uncle to Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin. Fortunately Georgie was patient ...

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