Gold is the New [ ]: Rossetti, Ruskin, and the Political Economy of Victorian Avant-Garde Art
May 24, 2024
For Rossetti, gold’s economic and monetary associations were something to be harnessed, wielded as a weapon, or presented as an offering. His reinterpretation of gold and gilding served, therefore, a most patently modern, even modernist, agenda: not the pursuit of novelty or Greenbergian “flatness” but the purposeful interrogation of established standards of value.
