The Colours of the Past in Victorian England

Informations projet

COPAST

N° de convention de subvention: 655396

DOI 10.3030/655396

Projet clôturé

Date de signature de la CE 5 Mars 2015

Date de début 1 Mars 2016

Date de fin 28 Février 2018

Financé au titre de

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Coût total € 195 454,80

Contribution de l’UE € 195 454,80

Coordonné par

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
United Kingdom

Objectif

This project entitled “The Colours of the Past in Victorian England” (COPAST) aims to analyse the reception of the chromatic material culture of Antiquity and the Middle Ages in the works of writers and painters from William Morris’s close circle. These politically-committed poets and artists looked towards the ideologically-charged colours of Hellenic and medieval arts and crafts, in order to retrieve and emulate supposedly more meaningful hues and dyeing processes which they believed modern science and economic imperatives had stripped of their symbolic and artistic value. The Victorian age (1837-1901) was indeed a turning point in terms of scientific discoveries of new chemical colours, including coal-tar based synthetic dyes. Dr. Ribeyrol will investigate ideological approaches to ancient polychromy in the context of the Greek and Gothic Revivals which affected industrialized England in the second half of the 19th century. Using close analysis of art works, literary texts and pigment recipe books, she will contrast these ancient hues with the new chemical aniline dyes which were mainly devised for the expanding textile industry. This innovative focus on chromatic materiality in the field of Victorian art history and literature will enable her to shed light on the artistic impact of this colour revolution which radically unsettled the way certain avant-garde Victorian writers and artists related to chromatic terminology and used traditional, organic pigments.

Champ scientifique (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classe les projets avec EuroSciVoc, une taxonomie multilingue des domaines scientifiques, grâce à un processus semi-automatique basé sur des techniques TLN.

• ingénierie et technologie › ingénierie des materiaux › couleurs
• ingénierie et technologie › ingénierie des materiaux › colorants synthétiques
• lettres › histoire et archéologie › histoire › histoire médiévale
• lettres › histoire et archéologie › histoire › histoire moderne
• lettres › arts › histoire de l’art

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Programme(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Main Programme
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility

Thème(s)

• MSCA-IF-2014-EF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF)

Appel à propositions

H2020-MSCA-IF-2014

Régime de financement

MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF

Coordinateur

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

• Contribution nette de l'UE: € 195 454,80
• Adresse: WELLINGTON SQUARE UNIVERSITY OFFICES ; OX1 2JD Oxford ; Royaume-Uni
• Région: South East (England) › Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire › Oxfordshire
• Type d’activité: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Coût total: € 195 454,80