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Artists' houses and their gardens formed a distinct and influential strand in Victorian architecture and decoration, eliciting public interest and coverage in the popular press of the day. The artist's home and its contents were essential components of the Aesthetic Movement, in which artists - as home-owners, interior designers, producers and consumers - drove the movement into the mainstream. Artists such as Frederic Leighton, G.F.Watts, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones were the product of the phenomenon of the Victorian art world which brought fame and public adulation to its most successful exponents. "Artistic Circles" takes the unique approach of examining Aestheticism from a social perspective and reveals how the art movement influenced the development of domestic building and homemaking for an emerging section of Victorian society, the educated middle-class professional.
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Charlotte Gere is a writer, curator and nineteenth-century decorative arts specialist. Her many publications include Nineteenth-Century Decoration: The Art of the Interior (1989), Nineteenth-Century Design from Pugin to Mackintosh (1993), Victorian Fairy Painting (1997), The House Beautiful: Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetic Interior (2000) and House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolour Interiors (2008).
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Artists in the Victorian era often drew no distinction between their private and public works and so their homes and gardens set a design standard for the middle class and general public.
In "Artistic Circles: Design and Decoration in the Aesthetic Movement," we get a view of many of the top designers and artists, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Frederic Leighton, William Morris and G.F. Watts, as they took their creative selves and creative genius out into the world. As the author Charlotte Gere, a 19th Century decorative arts expert, notes, the artistry and ideas of these essentially middle-class members of the Aesthetic Movement influenced the homes of aristocrats, an unusual flow in class-conscious England.
Paintings and photos of homes, their owners, and representations of their work fill the pages, accompanied by an informative account of the Aesthetic Movement and its significance in Western culture. The effect is to educate as well as provide a work of beauty in its own right.
In "Artistic Circles: Design and Decoration in the Aesthetic Movement," we get a view of many of the top designers and artists, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Frederic Leighton, William Morris and G.F. Watts, as they took their creative selves and creative genius out into the world. As the author Charlotte Gere, a 19th Century decorative arts expert, notes, the artistry and ideas of these essentially middle-class members of the Aesthetic Movement influenced the homes of aristocrats, an unusual flow in class-conscious England.
Paintings and photos of homes, their owners, and representations of their work fill the pages, accompanied by an informative account of the Aesthetic Movement and its significance in Western culture. The effect is to educate as well as provide a work of beauty in its own right.
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