Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century (Yale Center for British Art) (Icons of the Luso-Hispanic World)

by Angus Trumble (Author), Alexander Nemerov (Author), Andrea Wolk Rager (Author), A Cassandra Albinson (Author), Angus Trumble (Author), Alexander Nemerov (Author), Imogen Hart (Author), Elizabeth Mansfield (Author), Pamela Fletcher (Author), Tim Barringer (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2013

  $57.52

  Views of Edwardian era have swung between seeing period as a golden summer afternoon of imperial and elite complacency and starkly conflicting depiction of decade as one of intense political, and artistic instability. This book explores themes of power and a contrasting lightness of touch through architecture, and decorative and fine arts.