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Colour Revolution : Victorian Art, Fashion & Design

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An exploration of the changing status of colour in the Victorian period through painting, sculpture, decorative arts and fashion, published to accompany an exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum. Contrary to the monochrome vision of Queen Victoria's mourning dresses and the coal-polluted streets of Charles Dickens' London, Victorian Britain was, in fact, a period of new and vivid colors. The Industrial Revolution had transformed the Victorians' perception of color and, over the course of the second half of the 19th century, it became the key signifier of modern life. Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion & Design charts the Victorians' new attitudes to color through a multi-disciplinary exploration of culture, technology, art and literature. The catalogue explores key 'chromatic' moments that inspired Victorian artists and writers to think anew about the materiality of color. Rebelling against the bleakness of the industrial present, these figures learned from the sacred colors of the past, the sumptuous colors of the Middle East and Japan and looked forward towards the decadent colors that defined the end of the century.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781910807576
  • ISBN-10: 1910807575
  • Publisher: Ashmolean Museum
  • Publish Date: August 2023
  • Dimensions: 10.99 x 8.69 x 0.54 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.56 pounds
  • Page Count: 238

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