{"product_id":"the-last-pre-raphaelite-fiona-maccarthy-9780674065796","title":"The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhile still a student at Oxford, Edward Burne-Jones formed a friendship and made a renunciation that would shape art history. The friendship was with William Morris, with whom he would occupy the social and intellectual center of the era's cult of beauty. The renunciation was of his intention to enter the clergy, when he-together with Morris-vowed to throw over the Church in favor of art. In Fiona MacCarthy's riveting account of Burne-Jones's life, that exchange of faith for art places him at the intersection of the nineteenth century and the Modern, as he leads us forward from Victorian mores and attitudes to the psychological, sexual, and artistic audacity that would characterize the early twentieth century. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn MacCarthy's hands, Burne-Jones emerges as a great visionary painter, a master of mystic reverie, and a pivotal late nineteenth-century cultural and artistic figure. Lavishly illustrated with color plates, \u003ci\u003eThe Last Pre-Raphaelite\u003c\/i\u003e shows that Burne-Jones's influence extended far beyond his own circle to Freudian Vienna and the delicately gilded erotic dream paintings of Gustav Klimt, the Swiss Symbolist painter Ferdinand Hodler, and the young Pablo Picasso and the Catalan painters. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on extensive research, MacCarthy offers a fresh perspective on the achievement of Burne-Jones, a precursor to the Modern, and tells the dramatic, fascinating story of this peculiarly captivating and elusive man.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fiona MacCarthy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674065794\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674065796\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/29\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 656\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.41h x 9.46w x 1.79d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/23\/2012 pg. 14\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/17\/2012 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2012 pg. 93\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/06\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2012 pg. 165\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooks \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2012 pg. 32","brand":"Fiona MacCarthy","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44213361279231,"sku":"9780674065796","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dae7b8fd-e4f9-4719-afaa-6490caaeed1b.jpg?v=1692113442","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-last-pre-raphaelite-fiona-maccarthy-9780674065796","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}