Colour revolution: Victorian art, fashion & design

(from table of contents) Foreword

Preface / Elizabeth Prettejohn

1. Glowing colour. 'The age of colour' : Victorian Britain (1837-1901) / Matthew Winterbottom and Charlotte Ribeyrol

Colour in Ruskin's teachings / Colin Harrison

Turner's paintings of Venice / Colin Harrison

'The Gothic school of colour' : reviving the Hues of the Middle Ages / Charlotte Ribeyrol

Unweaving the rainbow : nature's colours in art, fashion and design / Madeline Hewitson

Pretty plant photographers or pioneers? Anna Atkins and Sarah Angelina Acland / Lena Fritsch

Object in focus : Harry Emanuel, 'Hummingbird Necklace' (1865) / Madeline Hewitson

2. Colour for all. 'The triumph of colour' : the synthetic colour revolution / Matthew Winterbottom

'More brilliant tints than fancy could conceive' - exhibiting colour : the 1862 International Exhibition / Matthew Winterbottom

Object in focus : the Great Bookcase : between medieval and Victorian colour / Tea Ghigo

Surface matters : skin colour, race and materiality / Madeline Hewitson

'Wedding archaeology with art' : the rediscovery of ancient polychromy /

Charlotte Ribeyrol

Journeys for colour : artist-travellers and British orientalism / Madeline Hewitson

Object in focus : Owen Jones, "The history of Joseph and his brethren" (1865) / Madeline Hewitson

'The gorgeous contributions of India' : sourcing colour in the British Empire / Matthew Winterbottom and Madeline Hewitson

3. Colour for colour's sake. Colour for colour's sake / Stefano Evangelista and Charlotte Ribeyrol

Object in focus : James McNeill Whistler, "Nocturne : blue and gold, St Mark's Venice" (1880) / Madeline Hewitson

Queer colours / Stefano Evangelista

Object in focus : "Fin-de-siècle" Tanagras /

Charlotte Ribeyrol

Object in focus : Japanese board game / Clare Pollard

The electric fairy : Loïe Fuller (1862-1928) / Matthew Winterbottom.