This book gives the reader the opportunity to reassess this comparatively little-known personality and to see the range of his art.
Accompanying a major exhibition of Burne-Jones's work at Tate Britain, this book looks at what was distinctive about Burne-Jones's art, and charts the course through which he emerged from being an outsider, to being revered as one of the ...
Burne-Jones
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Yet he seems to have been one of the most representative figures of the symbolist movement and of that pervasive mood termed “fin-de-siecle”. Burne-Jones is usually labelled as a Pre-Raphaelite.
The centenary of Burne-Jones' death falls in 1998, and here the career of the greatest of all English romantic painters is reassesed.
Yet it is a dreamer always whose nature penetrates these works.
Burne-Jones: The Paintings, Graphic, and Decorative Work of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, 1833-98
Reproduction of the original: Burne-Jones by A. Lys Baldry