We are offering an exhibition catalogue : Rossetti and His Circle, by Elizabeth Prettejohn, Stewart Tabori & Chang, 1998. Soft Covers. 80 pages, about 8.5" x 8.5". 60 illustrations, most color. Dante Gabriel Rossetti's house in Chelsea was a Bohemian enclave in Victorian London, the social centre for such rebels as the visionary painter Edward Burne-Jones, the socialist William Morris, the aesthete James McNeill Whistler, and the scandalous poet Charles Swinburne . The rumours it aroused mixed fact and fiction to tell of love affairs between artists and models, of nocturnal rambles and drunken poetry recitations, of the house's collection of Oriental china, medieval musical instruments and exotic animals. But fact or fantasy, the circle's unconventional image was inseparable from their artistic experiments. This book offers new perspectives on the sensual depictions of women, the use of intense color and exotic accessories to heighten sensory experience, the overtones of spirituality and mysticism in the art of Rossetti and his circle, including J. F. Watts, Fernand Khnopff, Frederic Shields, Simeon, Solomon and others. Through their oil paintings, Rossetti and his friends transformed Bohemian life into a religion of beauty, leading the way toward the Symbolist art of the late nineteenth century. Published to coincide with a major 1998 exhibition at the Tate Gallery, this book explores the link between the bohemian lifestyle and the artistic experimentation that involved painter Dante Rossetti and his friends. .

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