Dante Gabriel Rossetti
by Tickner, Lisa
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- Fine
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1854374877
- ISBN 13
- 9781854374875
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About This Item
London: Tate Gallery Publications, 2003. 80 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. First Edition. "The painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) was one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848. He is now best known for his sumptuous oil paintings of solitary women from the 1860s and 1870s. These were a major influence on European Symbolism at the end of the nineteenth century, and were admired by Salvador Dali as embodiments of the 'Eternal Feminine' in 1936. In this overview of Rossetti's career, however, Lisa Tickner suggests that the later oils have obscured an interest in his earlier work and his achievements as a draughtsman and illustrator. She discusses the jewel-like watercolours of the 1850s, inspired by themes from Dante and Arthurian legend, and argues that it was, paradoxically, when Rossetti was most in thrall to the mythic past that he was at his most innovative and visionary. This timely reassessment presents a picture of a complex and highly original artist." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Introduction: What is Wrong with Rossetti?; Bloomsbury--Poetic Realism: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 1848-1853; Blackfriars--Mystic Medievalism: The Watercolours of the 1850s; Chelsea--Body's Beauty and Soul's Beauty: The Oils of the 1860s; Kelmscott and Chelsea--'The Religion of Beauty': Late Works of the 1870s.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 056969
- Title
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Author
- Tickner, Lisa
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 1854374877
- ISBN 13
- 9781854374875
- Publisher
- Tate Gallery Publications
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2003
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; European / British & Irish; European / 7. Late 19th Century; Movements / Pre-Raphaelites;
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