Christina Rossetti: Poetry in Art - Hardcover

Owens, Susan; Tromans, Nicholas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300234864 ISBN 13: 9780300234862

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2018

Synopsis

The first art book to explore Rossetti's art and poetry together, including her own artworks, illustrations to her writing, and art inspired by her

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) is among the greatest of English Victorian poets. The intensity of her vision, her colloquial style, and the lyrical quality of her verse still speak powerfully to us today, while her striking imagery has always inspired artists. Rossetti lived in an exceptionally visual environment: her brother, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was the leading member of the avant-garde Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and she became a favorite model for the group. She sat for the face of Christ in William Holman Hunt’s The Light of the World, while both John Everett Millais and Frederick Sandys illustrated her poetry. Later on, the pioneering photographer Julia Margaret Cameron and the great Belgian Symbolist Fernand Khnopff were inspired by Rossetti’s enigmatic verses. This engaging book explores the full artistic context of Rossetti’s life and poetry: her own complicated attitude to pictures; the many portraits of her by artists, including her brother, John Brett, and Lewis Carroll; her own intriguing and virtually unknown drawings; and the wealth of visual images inspired by her words.

About this title

Book Description:

Situating the poet Christina Rossetti fully within her artistic context, this book explores the visual art she inspired and created.

About the Author:

Nicholas Tromans is program director at Christie’s Education, London, and former curator at Watts Gallery, Surrey. Susan Owens, an art historian and writer, is former curator of paintings at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0300234864
• ISBN 13: 9780300234862
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192