The age of Rossetti, Burne-Jones & Watts : Symbolism in Britain, 1860-1910

In the last twenty-five years Symbolism has been much investigated, but British artists have usually been accorded a marginal role in the movement. It has always been assumed that Symbolism was essentially a continental phenomenon, having only slight links with what happened in Great Britain in the late nineteenth century. This new examination of the subject revises that view by focusing on key British artists, some of whom predate their continental colleagues in de... >Voir plus