BBC History Magazine
http://www.historyextra.com/book-review/last-pre-raphaelite-edward-burne-jones-and-victorian-imagination
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-2037874/The-LAST-Pre-Raphaelites-THE-LAST-PRE-RAPHAELITE-EDWARD-BURNE-JONES-AND-THE-VICTORIAN-IMAGINATION-BY-FIONA-MACCARTHY.html
Fiona MacCarthy, author of a previous tome on William Morris, is an expert on Victorian art, sensibility and personalities. She does justice to Burne-Jones’s immense output. Long as it is, her book is never dull. But it is the human drama that keeps one turning the pages.
I wish I were more susceptible to Ned’s dream visions of scenes of chivalry and Arthurian legend. But his stunners are indeed stunning. It irks me that I have never come across such amazing women in life. Where were they - those pale, intense goddesses of yearning with their enveloping bronze tresses?
Perhaps - just a suspicion - they never really looked like that except through the fervent eyes and paintbrushes of Rossetti and his chum, Burne-Jones?
2 comments:
I am enjoying this book so much! I think the women looked like that for a glamorous moment in the artists eye. Something like the auras that the likes of Monroe and the other screen goddesses could evoke. Angela
I think particularly with BJ, understanding his life is important in understanding his pictures. Why are most of his women so sexless ? Why do they not look at each other?
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