The great illustrators of Edgar Allan Poe

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Titel
The great illustrators of Edgar Allan Poe
verantwortlich
Magistrale, Tony (VerfasserIn); Slayton, Jessica (VerfasserIn)
veröffentlicht
London, New York, NY: Anthem Press, 2021
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Erscheint auch als
Magistrale, Tony, 1952 - , The great illustrators of Edgar Allan Poe, London, UK : Anthem Press, 2021, 204 Seiten
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The great illustrators of Edgar Allan Poe
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Zusammenfassung
Although there have been over 700 illustrators of Poe's work over the past two centuries, this book chooses to examine only the best of them. Beginning with the French in the nineteenth century and tracing the great illustrators of Poe to the present, this book not only provides close analyses of individual visualizations but also seeks to supply an art history context to understanding their emergence. The majority of the artists featured remain unknown, even to Poe scholars, although their artwork represents iterations inspired by the most famous of Poe's poems and stories. In some cases, the illustrations helped increase the visibility of particular Poe works and to make them part of the international Poe canon. A few of the illustrators featured in this book (e.g., Manet, Doré, Redon, Beardsley) are recognized among the most famous artists in the world. Others, such as Martini and Blumenschein, while remaining minor figures in art history, nevertheless produced immortal work based on Poe's fiction and poetry. While still other visual artists represented here (Rackham, Dulac, Clarke) achieved artistic fame as book illustrators based on homages to other writers and fairy tales in combination with their Poe studies; their work on Poe, however, helped to solidify their larger reputations as professional illustrators. The last chapter extends traditional visualizations influenced by Poe to include his impact on twentieth- and twenty-first century filmmakers and cartoonists. They, too, found in Poe's writing either a source for direct re-creation or an inspiration for their own atmospheric excursions into the bizarre, the exotic, and the psychologically complex.
Umfang
Online-Ressource; Illustrationen
Sprache
Englisch
Schlagworte
BK-Notation
18.05 Englische Literatur
21.32 Geschichte der Graphik
DDC-Notation
818.309
ISBN
9781785277849