As occasional model for no less than Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones, Marie Spartali Stillman (1844-1927) remains a well-known face of the Pre-Raphealite era. Born into a well-to-do Anglo-Greek family in London, she was greatly admired as one of 'The Three Graces', alongside Aglaia Coronio and Maria Zambaco, and photographed several times by Julia Margaret Cameron. Her circle of close friends included, among others, William Michael Rossetti, Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown, George Frederick Watts, Jane Morris, the Ionides family, and James Abbott MacNeill Whistler. What few people now realise is that behind the enigmatic face lay talent and determination. A gifted artist in her own right, Marie persuaded her father to allow her to study under Ford Madox Brown. She was a prolific painter throughout her long career - a career that she was determined to have in a time when women of her status were actively discouraged from doing so, and that she maintained throughout her marriage. She exhibited regularly at the Dudley from 1870, the Grosvenor from 1877 and at the New Gallery from 1887 until 1908, in addition to numerous exhibitions in the United States between 1875 and 1908. Her husband, William James Stillman (1828-1901), a New Englander by birth, was an early and important figure in the development of American taste for a domestic school of painting. In 1855 he founded and edited "The Crayon", the first successful American fine art journal, with John Ruskin's encouragement and with William Michael Rossetti as his London correspondent. Stillman painted with members of the Hudson River school and was a pioneering and creative photographer. In Europe, following his marriage to Marie Spartali in 1871, he was a war correspondent and Rome correspondent for "The Times" from 1876 until his retirement in 1898. This is the first biography of Marie Spartali Stillman. Based on complete access to her family's archives, it fully examines her work as well as placing it in to social and personal context. This richly illustrated and comprehensive book catalogues more than 170 works by Marie Spartali Stillman, many previously unknown. As much of her work can only be found in private collections, many of the works illustrated here have not been seen by the public since her last exhibition in 1908.
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评分这本书的语言风格简直是令人目眩神迷,它摒弃了现代小说的简洁直白,转而采用了一种繁复、华丽却又异常精准的句式结构,让人联想到19世纪末期的“唯美主义”文学倾向。每一个长句都像一条精心编织的锦带,层层叠叠,充满了丰富的修饰语和排比,初读时需要放慢速度,细细品味其韵律和节奏。作者在词汇的选择上展现了惊人的广度,他对情绪的命名和对色彩的描绘,达到了近乎“过度饱和”的程度,但这恰恰符合了拉斐尔前派对“极致之美”的追求。读完之后,我感觉自己的语言感知能力都得到了提升,仿佛重温了一次对词语魔力的探索。这种对语言形式的极致追求,使得这本书本身就成为了一个值得研究的艺术品,它挑战了我们对“流畅阅读”的固有期待,转而提供了一种更具仪式感和沉浸感的阅读体验,仿佛在阅读一本古老的,用珍贵墨水写成的羊皮卷。
评分这本书最让我惊喜的地方在于它对“失落的工艺”的致敬。它不仅仅局限于描述拉斐尔前派的绘画,更深入探讨了与该运动相关的设计、文学和家具制作领域。那种对“整体艺术作品”(Gesamtkunstwerk)的追求,即艺术应该渗透到日常生活的每一个角落,被作者阐释得淋漓尽致。我读到关于手工纺织品、哥特复兴式建筑细节的描写时,脑海中立刻浮现出丰富的图像,仿佛作者将图纸变成了文字。这种对物质文化的细致考据,显示了作者深厚的学术功底,但最难能可贵的是,他没有让这些考据沦为生硬的知识灌输。相反,这些细节成为了推动情节和塑造人物性格的关键元素。例如,某件特定的手工刺绣作品,如何承载了人物间未尽的情感,这种物与情的交织,是我近年来读到的文学作品中处理得最为高明的部分之一。
评分从纯粹的故事驱动角度来看,这本书的节奏把握非常老道,尽管它有着深厚的文化底蕴,但核心的冲突却异常尖锐和人性化。它探讨了理想主义者在面对世俗压力时的蜕变与幻灭,那种“曾经的纯真去哪里了”的喟叹贯穿始终。人物之间的对话充满了机锋和潜台词,每一次看似平静的交谈,背后都可能隐藏着一场关于艺术哲学或个人尊严的暗战。我尤其喜欢作者对“沉默”的描绘,很多重要的转折点,不是通过激烈的争吵完成的,而是通过一方或几方的彻底沉默,让时间去发酵,让误解慢慢积累成无法挽回的隔阂。这种对“不作为”的精妙刻画,比直接的戏剧冲突更具冲击力,因为它更贴近我们现实生活中的遗憾。这本书成功地证明了,深刻的内省和细微的情感波动,可以构筑起一个比宏大史诗更具感染力的叙事世界。
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