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Beschreibung:

Frontispiz; XXII; 177 S. Text und 115 Illustr. auf Tafelseiten; 25 cm. Originalleinen mit Schutzumschlag.

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Gutes Ex.; Umschl. berieben u. mit kl. Läsuren; Kopfschnitt minimal fleckig. - Englisch. // Aus der Bibliothek der Kostümdesignerin Moidele Bickel (OSCAR-Nominierung für "Bartholomäusnacht"; Peter Stein-Inszenierungen); signiert mit "MB". // Samuel Palmer (* 27. Januar 1805 in London; ? 24. Mai 1881 in Reigate, Surrey, England) war ein britischer Landschaftsmaler und Radierer der Romantik. // Edward Coley Burne-Jones (* 28. August 1833 in Birmingham; ? 17. Juni 1898 in London) war ein britischer Maler und einer der führenden Vertreter der Präraffaeliten. Er arbeitete eng mit William Morris zusammen im Bereich Buchschmuck und Textildesign sowie Glasmalerei. -- The author, one of our most eminent literary biographers, devotes these A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts to two English Romantic painters, seen from both a literary and a biographical point of view. His concern is with the man rather than the artist, but the two are inseparable, and so he dwells on Palmer's and Burne-Jones's painting as it shaped their lives and revealed their characters. Both artists found inspiration in literature, and Lord David Cecil discovers how poetry enriched their art. He is concerned also with the mental and spiritual climate of the nineteenth century in which they lived, a time when the poet-painter flourished. (Samuel Palmer lived from 1805 to 1881, Edward Burne-Jones from 1833 to 1898. Though so nearly contemporary, the two artists were of different circles and unacquainted with one another.) Finally, while creating quite separate portraits of each man, he contrasts their work and the tenor of their lives-Palmer the visionary, nearer to spiritual and earthly reality, obscure in his lifetime, now a recognized master; Burne-Jones the Pre-Raphaelite daydreamer, gifted with less of natural genius, revered as a great painter, now admired chiefly for his work in applied art. The book is illustrated with 116 plates, of which 21 are in color. (Verlagstext) ISBN 0691098530