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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. Softcover. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Edward Burne-Jones was the subject of a British Arts Council exhibition at the Hayward Gallery London in 1975 and of a smaller exhibition in Rome in 1986 but this exhibition will be the first comprehensive monographic display of his work in the United States or in France. Our thanks is therefore extended first of all to the staff at these museums who contributed to making this exhibition possible and in particular to Mahrukh Tarapor Associate Director for Exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum; Jane Farrington Principal Curator of Art in Birmingham; Laurence des Cars Conservateur at the Mus?e d’Orsay and at the R?union des mus?es nationaux B?n?dicte Boissonnas Head of the Exhibition Department. Selecting the works of art to be presented in a mono- graphic exhibition of a major painter is an arduous if enviable task. Reviewing contemporary and posthumous criticism and scholarship combing through archives sifting auction house records and museum inventories to produce a list of acknowledged masterpieces-these are the lifeblood of a curator’s work. Shaping and refining that list to balance the stages of an artist’s career always sensitive to the exigencies of requesting fragile works of art for loan are labors of patience as well as discernment rarely appreciated or even perceived by the pudic the more successful a curator’s choices the less obvious are the efforts that made them possible and the more seam lessly inevitable they appear. We are thus extremely for tunate to have been able to call upon the rich experience and tireless dedication to their subject of two gifted scholars Stephen Wildman and John Christian in selecting arranging and cataloguing the present exhibi tion. Their task was daunting. Burne-Jones’s restless inventive genius and will to create made him one of the most prolific artists of the nineteenth century. Mastering his accomplishments in media as diverse as tapestry stained glass and painted ceramics. (MP)