Burne-Jones; Author: Mancoff, Debra N.; Paperback

Author: Mancoff, Debra N.
Paperback; Illustrated
Pomegranate Communications
ISBN: 0764906151

Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-1898) -- protege of Pre-Raphaelite master Dante Gabriel Rossetti and close friend and associate of William Morris, pioneer of the Arts and Crafts Movement -- developed a unique style of painting that by the late 1870s had the critics enthralled. In art drawn from fairy tales, Arthurian legend, chivalric lore, and classical epic, Burne-Jones's exquisite imagery transported his audience out of their own progressive age into a romanticized past.Curator and art historian Debra Mancoff supplies in Burne-Jones a fresh and illuminating portrait of the painter. More than a simple account of his life and works, she explores the enduring themes in his art and follows the artist in his quest for his aesthetic ideal.Ninety-six reproductions, mostly in color (many of them for the first time), illustrate this personal view of an artist who shunned the prosaic tendencie of his age to focus on an alternative realm inspired by poetry and legend. Drawing on the artist's own letters and commentary, the author looks at