Description
| Product ID: | 9783034319744 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CH |
| Series: | Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts |
| Title: | The Colours of the Past in Victorian England |
| Authors: | Author: Charlotte Ribeyrol |
| Page Count: | 310 |
| Subjects: | History of art, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, Paintings and painting, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Painting & paintings, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 , Literary studies: from c 1900 - |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating As new, artificial dyes were created in the second half of the nineteenth century, a longing for faded, ancient hues emerged in artistic circles. This collection focuses on the complex reception of the colours of the past in the works of major Victorian writers and artists, exploring the multiple facets of their chromatic nostalgia. The experience of colour underwent a significant change in the second half of the nineteenth century, as new coal tar-based synthetic dyes were devised for the expanding textile industry. These new, artificial colours were often despised in artistic circles who favoured ancient and more authentic forms of polychromy, whether antique, medieval, Renaissance or Japanese. However faded, ancient hues were embraced as rich, chromatic alternatives to the bleakness of industrial modernity, fostering fantasized recreations of an idealized past. The interdisciplinary essays in this collection focus on the complex reception of the colours of the past in the works of major Victorian writers and artists. Drawing on close analyses of artworks and literary texts, the contributors to this volume explore the multiple facets of the chromatic nostalgia of the Victorians, as well as the contrast between ancient colouring practices and the new sciences and techniques of colour. |
| Imprint Name: | Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissensc |
| Publisher Name: | Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-06-04 |