COLOUR REVOLUTION: VICTORIAN ART FASHION AND DESIGN (PB)

Contrary to the impression given by Queen Victoria’s mourning dresses and Dickens’ novels, Victorian Britain was a place of new and vivid colours made possible by the developments of the Industrial Revolution. This book charts the Victorians’ new attitudes to colour through an exploration of culture, technology, art and literature. It reveals key ‘chromatic’ moments that inspired Victorian artists and writers to think anew and learn from the sacred colours of the past, explore the sumptuous colours of the Middle East and Japan, and create the decadent colours that defined the end of the century.