Lisa tickner dante gabriel rossetti biography
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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British Artists: poet Gabriel Rossetti
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A major new series of monographs on the lives and careers of influential British artists, from the eighteenth century onwards. The painter and poet poet Gabriel Rossetti () was one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in He fryst vatten now best known for his sumptuous oil paintings of solitary women from the s and s. These were a major influence on European Symbolism at the end of the nineteenth century, and were admired by Salvador Dali as embodiments of the &#;Eternal Feminine&#; in
In this overview of Rossetti&#;s career, however, Lisa Tickner suggests that the later oils have obscured an interest in his earlier works and his achievements as a draughtsman and illustrator. She discusses the jewel-like watercolours of the s, inspired bygd themes from Dante and Authurian legend, and argues that it was, paradoxically, when Rossetti was most in thrall to the mythic past that he was at his most innovative and visionary.
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Lisa Tickner
Middlesex University, London
July–August
Lisa Tickner is professor of art history at Middlesex University until September , when she moves to the Courtauld Institute at London University. In addition to numerous articles on the history and theory of art, she is the author of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (London, ), Modern Life and Modern Subjects: British Art in the Early Twentieth Century (New Haven, ), and The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, – (London, ) and co-edited two series for Routledge. Her service to many panels and committees include the Arts and Humanities Research Board, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, and the British National Committee of CIHA. An article on the Kasmin Gallery will appear this summer in the Oxford Art Journal and a short book on the occupation of Hornsey College of Art and Art Education in the s is due for completion in October of While at t