{"product_id":"the-radical-vision-of-edward-burne-jones-by-andrea-wolk-rager-9781913107277","title":"The Radical Vision of Edward Burne-Jones","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA bold reassessment of nineteenth-century British painter and decorative artist Edward Burne-Jones, elucidating his fundamentally radical defiance of the Victorian age.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChallenging the dominant characterization of Edward Burne-Jones as an escapist who withdrew from the modern world into imaginary realms of his own creation, this groundbreaking book argues that he was engaged in a fundamentally radical defiance of the age, protesting against imperial aggression, capitalist economic inequality, and environmental destruction in the wake of the industrial revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHarnessing the utopian power of embodied aesthetic encounters, Burne-Jones drew inspiration from the medieval concept of dreams as visionary states of transformation. Therefore, his art functioned not as a retreat, but as a vehicle for revolutionary awakening. Often characterized as a painter, this book re-centres Burne-Jones’s practice in the decorative arts, demonstrating that he consistently interrogated the boundaries of artistic media, in keeping with wider debates over the role of the arts in the nineteenth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe first scholarly monograph solely devoted to Burne-Jones since 1973, \u003cem\u003eThe Radical Vision of Edward Burne-Jones\u003c\/em\u003e offers a thorough re-examination of his work, illuminating his radical defiance of the artistic, social, and political hierarchies of nineteenth-century Britain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47384048894188,"sku":"9781913107277","price":107.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3741263482869.jpg?v=1773399621","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-radical-vision-of-edward-burne-jones-by-andrea-wolk-rager-9781913107277","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}