Edward Burne-Jones

图书信息

作者	Penelope Fitzgerald,Frances Spalding
出版社	Fourth Estate
ISBN	9780007588237
出版时间	2014-05-08
字数	61.2万
分类	Fourth Estate,进口书,外文原版书,文学,自传,回忆录

读书简介

Penelope Fitzgerald, the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Offshore’ and ‘The Blue Flower’, turns her attention to the remarkable life of the Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones. ‘I mean by a picture a beautiful, romantic dream of something that never was, never will be, in a light better than any light that ever shone – in a land no one can define or remember, only desire’ Edward Burne-Jones Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) was the prototypical pre-Raphaelite but with a truly individual sensibility. Penelope Fitzgerald’s delightful biography charts his life from humble beginnings in Birmingham as the son of an unsuccessful framer, through a transformative period at Oxford, where he met his close friend and collaborator William Morris, and on to the apprenticeship with Dante Gabriel Rossetti that would shape his artistic vision. His work harks back to an Arthurian England – an Arcadia that offered solace against the onset of the Industrial Revolution, and on a deeply personal level provided respite from his ever-present melancholia. This is an illuminating portrait of a fascinating figure – artistic genius, doting father, troubled husband – written with all Penelope Fitzgerald’s characteristic sympathy and insight.

目录

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Penelope Fitzgerald: Preface by Hermione Lee, Advisory Editor

Introduction

Picture Acknowledgements

Foreword and Acknowledgements

1. 1833–53: A childhood without beauty

2. 1853–5: Oxford: loss and gain

3. 1855–6: Morris and Jones; the quest for a vocation

4. 1856: An apprenticeship to Rossetti

5. 1856–60: The long engagement

6. 1860–2: Expansion: the firm, Ruskin and Italy

7. 1863–5: Green Summer: a season of happiness

8. 1865–6: Friends and enemies

9. 1866–7: A threat to the Earthly Paradise

10. 1867–70: Phyllis and Demophoön: the dangers of enchantment

11. 1870–6: The desolate years

12. 1876–8: A return to the world: the Grosvenor Gallery

13. 1878–84: King Cophetua: the studio in the eighties

14. 1884–90: The Royal Academy: ‘to think, Jones, of your coming to this!’

15. 1890–2: Briar Rose: Burne-Jones in the nineties

16. 1892–4: ‘The best in me has been love’

17. 1894–6: The Kelmscott Chaucer and the parting of friends

18. 1896–8: Rottingdean and Avalon

Picture Section

Appendix 1: Sources

1. Unpublished Material

2. Select Bibliography

Appendix 2: Paintings by Burne-Jones mentioned in the text and now in public collections

Notes to the Text

Index

By the Same Author

Copyright

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