Burne-Jones Talking: His Conversations 1895-1898 Preserved by His Studio Assistant Thomas Rooke

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Edward Burne-Jones Thomas Rooke

Burne-Jones Talking

His Conversations 1895-1898 Preserved by His Studio Assistant Thomas Rooke

Edward Burne-Jones, Thomas Rooke, Mary Lago

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English

Pallas Athene Publishers
01 August 2023

Art & design styles: Pre-Raphaelite art; Art Treatments & Subjects; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

'To know his work without his talk is not to know him only when they are side by side is the common origin and aim seen and the complete man displayed.' Thus Thomas Rooke, studio assistant to Burne-Jones, who over four years memorised and recorded much of his master's studio and lunch-table talk. The man revealed with startling freshness and immediacy is far from the familiar painter of knightly melancholy and abstract angels. Burne-Jones emerges as a loveable and charming man, far more practical and down-to-earth, far more witty and ironic than might have been expected. He may still regret that he was not born in the Middle Ages and reminisce about the golden years with William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the 1850's and 60's. But he is still hard at work on his last great collaboration with Morris, the Kelmscott Chaucer, while not hesitating to fulminate about Britain's imperial pretensions and the hypocrisy that accompanied them. And he is unfailingly articulate when it comes to discussing the craft of painting in relation to himself, his contemporaries and the giants of the past. The conversations are edited by Mary Lago, Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia, who also wrote extensively on William Rothenstein, Rabindranath Tagore and E. M. Forster.

AUTHORS: Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) was one of the greatest and most original artists of Victorian England; his romantic and dreamy output was belied by his sharp and practical private persona. Thomas Rooke (1842-1941) was a painter and topographer, much patronised by Ruskin. He served as Burne-Jones's studio assistant for the last four years of the older painter's life. Mary Lago was Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She wrote extensively on William Rothenstein, Rabindranath Tagore and E. M. Forster.

23 b/w illustrations

By: Edward Burne-Jones, Thomas Rooke, Mary Lago
Imprint: Pallas Athene Publishers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 134mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9781843680895
ISBN 10: 1843680890
Pages: 212
Publication Date: 01 August 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898) was one of the greatest and most original artists of Victorian England; his romantic and dreamy output was belied by his sharp and practical private persona. Thomas Rooke (1842-1941) was a painter and topographer, much patronised by Ruskin. He served as Burne-Jones's studio assistant for the last four years of the older painter's life. Mary Lago was Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She wrote extensively on William Rothenstein, Rabindranath Tagore and E. M. Forster.