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Rossetti his life and works / edited by Michael G. Brennan.
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Title:Rossetti his life and works / edited by Michael G. Brennan.
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Author/Creator:Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966, author.
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Other Contributors/Collections:Brennan, Michael G., editor.
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Published/Created:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
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Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
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Call Number: PR6045 .A8 2017 V. 16
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882.
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Edition:First edition.
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Description:lxxxii, 284 pages ; 23 cm
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Series:Waugh, Evelyn, 1903-1966. Works. v. 16.
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Summary:"This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all Waugh's published and previously unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive introductions and annotation, and a full account of each text's manuscript development and textual variants. The edition's General Editor is Alexander Waugh, Evelyn Waugh's grandson and editor of the twelve-volume Personal Writings sequence. This, Waugh's first published book, marked the centenary of the birth of the painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882). Waugh was fascinated by the bohemian lives of the Pre-Raphaelite painters, and by his own family connection with them (William Holman Hunt had married, successively, two cousins of his grandfather). Rossetti is both compassionate towards its subject and critical of his self-destructive nature. The incisive analysis of Rossetti's painterly techniques contributed to the resurgence of public interest in Rossetti's art and poetry. The biography was also an early expression of Waugh's lifelong interest in narrative art, and laid the foundations for his own belief in the importance of the spiritual as well as the aesthetic vision of the artist. Although Rossetti was hastily compiled, it is nevertheless elegant and witty." --From publisher's description.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-274) and index.
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ISBN:9780199683574 hardback
0199683573 hardback
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Contents:Machine generated contents note: I. Origins
Introduction
Rossetti family
Childhood of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
II. Pre-Raphaelites
condition of English painting
Haydon
new patrons
Academy
Madox Brown
origins of Pre-Raphaelitism
Millais and Hunt
Brotherhood
Academy, 1850
Water-colours
Elizabeth Siddal
Raskin rescues the P.R.B.
III. Æsthetes
Ruskin
Working Men's College
William Morris and the Pembroke set
Edward Burne-Jones
Rossetti `would have all men painters'
Arthur's Tomb, The Marriage of St. George, the Llandaff Triptych
Rossetti as a business man
Morris firm
Rossetti as a husband
Death of Elizabeth Siddal
IV. Good Years, 1862
1867
Tudor House
Rossetti's income
His collection of bric-a-brac and animals
Charles Augustus Howell
Beloved
Rossetti's compositions
V. Shadows
Insomnia
Fear of blindness
Penkill
Poems
VI. `The Fleshly School'
Robert Buchanan
Chloral
Jane Morris
`Past question not entirely sane'
Attempted suicide
Sale of his china
VII. Kelmscott, 1872
1874
Kelmscott Manor
Incompatibility of Rossetti's manner of life and Morris's
series of Jane Morris pictures
VIII. Last Phase, 1874
1882
London, 1874
Grosvenor Gallery
Last paintings
Last poems
Hall Caine
Vale of St. John
Death
IX. What is Wrong with Rossetti?
Subjective painting
`Literary' painting
Spiritual inadequacy.