William Burges's Great Bookcase and the Victorian Colour Revolution Ribeyrol Charlotte
William Burges's Great Bookcase and the Victorian Colour Revolution Ribeyrol Charlotte Charlotte Ribeyrol presents a fascinating (book)case study exploring the story of an extraordinary object,…
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William Burges's Great Bookcase and the Victorian Colour Revolution Ribeyrol Charlotte
Charlotte Ribeyrol presents a fascinating (book)case study exploring the story of an extraordinary object, William Burges's (1827-1881) Great Bookcase. Ribeyrol throws new light on the chromophilia of the "Pre-Raphaelite" architect William Burges and his key role in shaping aesthetic debates about color in the 1860s. No fewer than 13 major artists, including Edward Burne-Jones, Edward Poynter, and Albert Moore, took part in the painting of this unique piece of furniture, which has now returned to the Ashmolean Museum after an absence of over 80 years.
Interweaving art, literature, and chemistry, Ribeyrol reads the eight painted panels of the Great Bookcase in the context of this 'color revolution', which brought to the fore new This crucial decade, which saw the advent of the first synthetic dyes, transformed the experience of color for many painters and poets in Burges's circle.