Victorian Rainbow Makers: Variations on Colour Poetics
In his 1993 book retracing the history of synthetic dyestuffs, Anthony S. Travis describes the 19th century chemists who devised new aniline dyes for the expanding textile industry as “rainbow makers”. By conflating the materiality of coloured textiles and the prismatic hues of the sacred bow, Travi...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:angles_1548 https://doi.org/10.4000/angles.1548 urn:doi:10.4000/angles.1548 en https://journals.openedition.org/angles/1548 2020-07-16T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/9n05 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Victorian Rainbow Makers: Variations on Colour Poetics Angles Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2274-2042 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/angles Ribeyrol, Charlotte Keats John littérature victorienne peinture victorienne fin de siècle arc-en-ciel couleur prismatique pigment colorants d’aniline matérialité chromatique poikilia chimie Homère Newton Isaac Wilde Oscar Ruskin John Pater Walter Hunt William Holman Morris William réception de l’Antiquité Keats John Victorian literature Victorian painting fin de siècle rainbow prismatic colour pigments aniline dyes chromatic materiality poikilia chemistry classical reception studies Homer Newton Isaac Wilde Oscar Ruskin John Pater Walter Hunt William Holman Morris William In his 1993 book retracing the history of synthetic dyestuffs, Anthony S. Travis describes the 19th century chemists who devised new aniline dyes for the expanding textile industry as “rainbow makers”. By conflating the materiality of coloured textiles and the prismatic hues of the sacred bow, Travis may have been trying to vindicate a scientific entreprise which many late 19th century artists and writers had shunned, echoing John Keats’s denunciation of the “unweaving” of the rainbow by modern science. This article explores the poetic instability generated by the 19th century colour revolution in the works of John Ruskin, William Morris, Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde so as to shed light on the complex reception of modern artificial colouring practices as opposed to the Homeric colour-sense. Dans son ouvrage de 1993 retraçant l’histoire des colorants de synthèse, Anthony S. Travis décrit les chimistes du 19ème siècle à l’origine des couleurs d’aniline destinés à une industrie textile en pleine expansion comme des “faiseurs d’arcs-en-ciel”. En associant ainsi la matérialité des textiles colorés et les couleurs prismatiques de l’arc divin, Travis souhaitait sans doute défendre une entreprise contre laquelle de nombreux artistes et écrivains victoriens s’étaient insurgés, reprenant à leur compte la dénonciation keatsienne du détissage de l’arc-en-ciel par la science moderne. Cet article explore l’instabilité poétique générée par cette révolution chromatique dans l’œuvre de John Ruskin, William Morris, Walter Pater et Oscar Wilde afin de mettre en lumière les modalités complexes de réception de ces nouvelles pratiques colorantes, contrastant avec les couleurs d’Homère. |
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Keats John littérature victorienne peinture victorienne fin de siècle arc-en-ciel couleur prismatique pigment colorants d’aniline matérialité chromatique poikilia chimie Homère Newton Isaac Wilde Oscar Ruskin John Pater Walter Hunt William Holman Morris William réception de l’Antiquité Keats John Victorian literature Victorian painting fin de siècle rainbow prismatic colour pigments aniline dyes chromatic materiality poikilia chemistry classical reception studies Homer Newton Isaac Wilde Oscar Ruskin John Pater Walter Hunt William Holman Morris William |
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Keats John littérature victorienne peinture victorienne fin de siècle arc-en-ciel couleur prismatique pigment colorants d’aniline matérialité chromatique poikilia chimie Homère Newton Isaac Wilde Oscar Ruskin John Pater Walter Hunt William Holman Morris William réception de l’Antiquité Keats John Victorian literature Victorian painting fin de siècle rainbow prismatic colour pigments aniline dyes chromatic materiality poikilia chemistry classical reception studies Homer Newton Isaac Wilde Oscar Ruskin John Pater Walter Hunt William Holman Morris William Ribeyrol, Charlotte Victorian Rainbow Makers: Variations on Colour Poetics |
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In his 1993 book retracing the history of synthetic dyestuffs, Anthony S. Travis describes the 19th century chemists who devised new aniline dyes for the expanding textile industry as “rainbow makers”. By conflating the materiality of coloured textiles and the prismatic hues of the sacred bow, Travis may have been trying to vindicate a scientific entreprise which many late 19th century artists and writers had shunned, echoing John Keats’s denunciation of the “unweaving” of the rainbow by modern science. This article explores the poetic instability generated by the 19th century colour revolution in the works of John Ruskin, William Morris, Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde so as to shed light on the complex reception of modern artificial colouring practices as opposed to the Homeric colour-sense. |
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Ribeyrol, Charlotte |
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Ribeyrol, Charlotte |
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Ribeyrol, Charlotte |
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Victorian Rainbow Makers: Variations on Colour Poetics |
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Victorian Rainbow Makers: Variations on Colour Poetics |
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Victorian Rainbow Makers: Variations on Colour Poetics |
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Victorian Rainbow Makers: Variations on Colour Poetics |
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Victorian Rainbow Makers: Variations on Colour Poetics |
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victorian rainbow makers: variations on colour poetics |
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Angles |
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