Charlotte Ribeyrol, William Burges’s Great Bookcase & The Victorian Colour Revolution

‘And a heaven in a wild flower’: Auguries of ExcellenceCharlotte Ribeyrol explores the story of an extraordinary object, William Burges’s (1827–1881) ‘Great Bookcase’, in a study which throws new light on the chromophilia of the Pre-Raphaelites and on the aesthetic debates about colour in the 1860s...

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מחבר ראשי: Regard, Frédéric
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שפה:Anglais
יצא לאור: Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens 2025
גישה מקוונת:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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סיכום:‘And a heaven in a wild flower’: Auguries of ExcellenceCharlotte Ribeyrol explores the story of an extraordinary object, William Burges’s (1827–1881) ‘Great Bookcase’, in a study which throws new light on the chromophilia of the Pre-Raphaelites and on the aesthetic debates about colour in the 1860s, a crucial decade that saw the advent of the first synthetic dyes, and, as a consequence, a radical transformation of the experience of colour for many painters and poets. In a groundbreaking atte...