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Item Number: 122018
Title: Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Author: Trumble, Angus ; Andrea Wolk Rager
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780300190250
Description: New Haven: Yale University Press, in association with the Yale Center for British Art, 2013. 31cm., hardcover, 417pp. prof. illus., 115 plates, most in color. Exhibition held at Yale Center for British Art, New Haven. Summary: Views of the Edwardian era have swung between seeing the period as a golden summer afternoon of imperial and elite complacency and the starkly conflicting depiction of the decade as one of intense political, economic and artistic instability leading up to the chasm of the First World War. This magnificent book explores themes of power and a contrasting lightness of touch through the distinctive architecture, interiors and decorative and fine arts of the time. Creation, consumption and display are enlightened through portraits by Sargent and Boldoni, diamond tiaras and ostrich feather fans and a spectacular embroidered gown belonging to Mary, the American-born wife of Lord Curzon, Viceroy of India. At the same time, the Lumiere brothers’ invention of autochromes enabled informal colour portrait photography that fostered the cult of celebrity. Opulence and leisure were driving forces for the domestic and imperial British economic engine in the early years of the 20th century.
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