Love Revealed: Simeon Solomon And the Pre-raphaelites

ISBN: 1858943116

Author: Colin Cruise

Condition: New

The first major survey of Simeon Solomon's varied and dramatic career reconsiders the artist's life and work, his relationship to Pre-Raphaelitism and Aestheticism and his influence on late 19th century art. Six introductory essays, written by experts, provide new insights into his key works and their contexts, while the plates reproduce paintings and drawings rarely seen since their first showing. This study provides a full assessment of Solomon's work in oil and watercolour, drawing and illustration, and also re-appraises works by his friends and associates, among them Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones. Solomon introduced themes of sexual desire into British painting, charging it with a new poetry and sensuality, and this volume offers a unique opportunity to rediscover what Oscar Wilde called the 'strange genius' of an extraordinary outsider of British art. Black & white and colour.