中文简介：

本书大胆地重新评估了19世纪英国画家和装饰艺术家爱德华·伯恩-琼斯（Edward Burne-Jones），阐明了他从根本上对维多利亚时代的激进反抗。本书挑战了爱德华·伯恩-琼斯的主流形象——一个逃避现实的人，从现代世界逃避到自己创造的想象领域，开创性地认为他从根本上参与了对这个时代的激进反抗，抗议帝国侵略、资本主义经济不平等和工业革命之后的环境破坏。 伯恩-琼斯利用体现在审美体验中的乌托邦式力量，从中世纪的梦境概念中汲取灵感，将梦境转变为愿景。因此，他的艺术不是一种退隐，而是作为革命觉醒的载体。本书将伯恩-琼斯的实践重新集中在装饰艺术中，表明他一直在质疑艺术媒体的界限，顺应19世纪对艺术角色的广泛辩论。

英文简介：

A bold reassessment of nineteenth-century British painter and decorative artist Edward Burne-Jones, elucidating his fundamentally radical defiance of the Victorian ageChallenging the dominant characterization of Edward Burne-Jones as an escapist who withdrew from the modern world into imaginary realms of his own creation, this groundbreaking book argues that he was engaged in a fundamentally radical defiance of the age, protesting against imperial aggression, capitalist economic inequality, and environmental destruction in the wake of the industrial revolution. Harnessing the utopian power of embodied aesthetic encounters, Burne-Jones drew inspiration from the medieval concept of dreams as visionary states of transformation. Therefore, his art functioned not as a retreat, but as a vehicle for revolutionary awakening. Often characterized as a painter, this book re-centers Burne-Jones’s practice in the decorative arts, demonstrating that he consistently interrogated the boundaries of artistic media, in keeping with wider debates over the role of the arts in the nineteenth century.