Ashmolean Museum - Colour Revolution Victorian Art Fashion & Design - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 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 colours. The Industrial Revolution had transformed the Victorians perception of colour 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 colour 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 colour. Rebelling against the bleakness of the industrial present these figures learned from the sacred colours of the past the sumptuous colours of the Middle East and Japan and looked forward towards the decadent colours that defined the end of the century.
Title: Colour Revolution Victorian Art Fashion & Design
Brand: Ashmolean Museum
Barcode: 9781910807576
Pages: 238 Pages, 20 Illustrations, Black And White; 253 Illustrations, Color
Publication Date: 10/9/2023
Category: History Of Fashion