Global Milton and Visual Art

Global Milton and Visual Art
Author: Angelica Duran
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2021-03-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1793617074

Global Milton and Visual Art showcases the aesthetic appropriation and reinterpretation of the works and legend of the early modern English poet and politician John Milton in diverse eras, regions, and media: book illustrations, cinema, digital reworkings, monuments, painting, sculpture, shieldry, and stained glass. It innovates an inclusive approach to Milton’s literary art, especially his masterpiece Paradise Lost, in global contemporary aesthetics via intertextual and interdisciplinary relations. The fifteen purposefully-brief chapters, 103 illustrations, and 64 supplemental web-images reflect the great richness of the topics and the diverse experiences and expertise of the contributors. Part I: Panoramas, provides overviews and key contexts; Part II: Cameos offers different perspectives of the varied afterlives of the most widely-circulating illustrations of Paradise Lost, those by Gustave Doré; Part III: Textual Close-ups focuses on a rich variety of book illustrations, from centuries-old elite engravings to a twenty-first century graphic novel; and Part IV: A Prospect beyond Books, explores visual media outside of books that manifest powerful connections, direct and indirect, with Milton’s works and legend.

Milton & English Art

Milton & English Art
Author: Marcia R. Pointon
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 1974
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780719005930

Art is Work

Art is Work
Author: Milton Glaser
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-10-28
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9781590200063

"Examples of well-known projects abound - ranging from newspapers and magazines to toys, textiles, interiors, posters, and CD covers. If you've ever seen the menu at Windows on the World, used a bottle of ketchup from Grand Union, or read the playbill for Tony Kushner's Angels in America, you've been privy to the conceptual thinking of a powerful force in design."--BOOK JACKET.

The Art Stealers

The Art Stealers
Author: Milton Esterow
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1973
Genre: Archaeological thefts
ISBN:

Art stealing is as old as art itself. But in recent years, stimulated by the spectacular boom in art prices, stealing has mushroomed. Milton Esterow tells the entertaining and provocative story of this illicit trade in stolen masterpieces, including such sensational incidents as the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911, the involvement of Picasso and Apollinaire in the theft of statuettes from the Louvre and the amazing robbery of a Goya portrait from London's National Gallery. Some of the criminals are greedy, some patriots, some true art-lovers and some just plain screwballs. All make fascinating true crime copy at the hands of a skilled and knowledgeable writer.

Doré's Illustrations for "Paradise Lost"

Doré's Illustrations for
Author: Gustave Doré
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2012-03-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0486134032

All 50 of Doré's powerful illustrations for Milton's epic poem, recounting mankind's fall from the grace of God through the work of Satan. Appropriate quotes from the text are printed with each illustration.

Milton

Milton
Author: Anna Beer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2008-08-05
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1596914718

Chronicles the life of the master writer, offering insight into his involvement in the politics and religion of his era, and covering such topics as his writings against King Charles, his troubled relationships, and the impact of the Restoration on his survival.

Milton's Legacy in the Arts

Milton's Legacy in the Arts
Author: Albert C. Labriola
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1988
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Milton's influence upon poets and poetry has been broadly and specifically studied often in collections of essays. The present volume of original essays, by emphasizing and classifying Milton's influence on the arts other than poetry, is a significant addition to interdisciplinary scholarship. The editors choose to interpret John Good's words literally--Milton's influence "was powerfully felt upon all the multiplied forms and phases of eighteenth century life"--and to examine the implications of that assertion even into twentieth-century life. No other volume considers the certainty or possibility of Milton's influence on arts as diverse as oratorio, opera, drama, dance, book illustration, sculpture, and landscape architecture. Beyond Milton's well-documented influence on poets and poetry, the contributors focus their attention on the other arts and other creative artists whose imaginations were nevertheless affected by the poet Milton, at times profoundly so. Their chief aim is to be representative, not fully comprehensive, in defining, describing, and demonstrating the manifold influence of Milton on the other arts. A related aim is to motivate others to do likewise. Divided into three parts--Milton and book illustrations, Milton and the performing arts, and Milton and the philosophy of form--this book makes a central and significant point about the impact of Milton's work on the imaginations of artists in various disciplines throughout the following centuries. Indeed, for many of the works of art analyzed in the present volume, Milton must be considered their "onlie begetter."

Milton Among Spaniards

Milton Among Spaniards
Author: Angelica Duran
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2020-04-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1644531739

Firmly grounded in literary studies but drawing on religious studies, translation studies, drama, and visual art, Milton among Spaniards is the first book-length exploration of the afterlife of John Milton in Spanish culture, illuminating underexamined Anglo-Hispanic cultural relations. This study calls attention to a series of powerful engagements by Spaniards with Milton’s works and legend, following a general chronology from the eighteenth to the early twenty-first century, tracing the overall story of Milton’s presence from indices of prohibited works during the Inquisition, through the many Spanish translations of Paradise Lost, to the author’s depiction on stage in the nineteenth-century play Milton, and finally to the representation of Paradise Lost by Spanish visual artists. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.