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?
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
ReplyDeleteI 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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