Colour Revolution - Victorian Art, Fashion & Design

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. 

General

Imprint:	Ashmolean Museum
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2023
Editors:	Charlotte Ribeyrol • Matthew Winterbottom
Dimensions:	280 x 220mm (L x W)
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-1-910807-57-6
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	1-910807-57-5
Barcode:	9781910807576

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