Fuseli's Milton Gallery

Fuseli's Milton Gallery
Author: Luisa Cale
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2006-12-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0191514861

Fuseli's Milton Gallery challenges the antipictorial theories and canons of Romantic period culture. Between 1791 and 1799 Swiss painter Henry Fuseli turned Milton's Paradise Lost into a series of 40 pictures. Fuseli's project and other literary galleries developed within an expanding market for illustrated books and a culture of anthologization used to reading British and other 'classics' in terms of the visualization of key moments in the text. Thus transformed into repositories of virtual pictures literary texts became ideal sources of subjects for painters. Illustrating British literature was a way of inventing a national 'grand style' to fit the needs of a consumer society. Cale calls into question the separation of reading and viewing as autonomous aesthetic practices. To 'turn readers into spectators' meant to place readers and reading within the dizzying world of associations offered by an emerging culture of exhibitions. Attending to the energized reading effects developed by Fuseli's Gallery we rediscover a new side of the Romantic imagination which is not the solitary mentalist experience preferred by Wordsworth and Coleridge, nor divorced from the senses, let alone a refuge from the crowded public spaces of the Revolutionary period. Rather, Fuseli's embodied aesthetic exemplifies the associationist psychology espoused by the radical circle convening around the publisher Joseph Johnson, including Joseph Priestley and Mary Wollstonecraft. This book analyses exhibitions as important sites of Romantic sociability and one of many interrelated mediums for the literature, debates and controversies of the Revolutionary period.

Fuseli's Milton Gallery

Fuseli's Milton Gallery
Author: Luisa Cale
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2006-12-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0199267383

Fuseli's Milton Gallery challenges the antipictorial theories and canons of Romantic period culture. Between 1791 and 1799 Swiss painter Henry Fuseli turned Milton's Paradise Lost into a series of 40 pictures. Fuseli's project and other literary galleries developed within an expanding market for illustrated books and a culture of anthologization used to reading British and other 'classics' in terms of the visualization of key moments in the text. Thus transformedinto repositories of virtual pictures literary texts became ideal sources of subjects for painters. Illustrating British literature was a way of inventing a national 'grand style' to fit the needs of a consumer society.Cale calls into question the separation of reading and viewing as autonomous aesthetic practices. To 'turn readers into spectators' meant to place readers and reading within the dizzying world of associations offered by an emerging culture of exhibitions. Attending to the energized reading effects developed by Fuseli's Gallery we rediscover a new side of the Romantic imagination which is not the solitary mentalist experience preferred by Wordsworth and Coleridge, nor divorced from the senses,let alone a refuge from the crowded public spaces of the Revolutionary period. Rather, Fuseli's embodied aesthetic exemplifies the associationist psychology espoused by the radical circle convening around the publisher Joseph Johnson, including Joseph Priestley and Mary Wollstonecraft. This bookanalyses exhibitions as important sites of Romantic sociability and one of many interrelated mediums for the literature, debates and controversies of the Revolutionary period.

Milton & English Art

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

Fuseli

Fuseli
Author: Franziska Lentzsh
Publisher: Scheidegger and Spiess
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2005
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Published in connection with an exhibition held at Kunsthaus Zeurich Oct. 14, 2005-Jan. 8, 2006.

Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism

Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism
Author: Stephanie O'Rourke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2021-11-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1316519023

Innovative, alternative account of romanticism, exploring how art and science together contested the evidentiary authority of the human body.

Romanticism and Illustration

Romanticism and Illustration
Author: Ian Haywood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2019-05-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1108425712

Explores a vital aspect of British Romanticism, the role of illustration in Romantic-era literary texts and visual culture.

Bodybuilding

Bodybuilding
Author: Martin Myrone
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780300110050

"Combining visual analysis, social history and masculinity studies, Bodybuilding effects a vivid image of this critical period in Britain's cultural history and establishes on ambitious new framework for the study of late eighteenth-century art and gender."--BOOK JACKET.

Henry Fuseli

Henry Fuseli
Author: Eva Reifert
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-01-08
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3791357581

The renowned 18th-century painter Henry Fuseli, who revered Shakespeare and loved all things theatrical, is the subject of this lavishly illustrated book which focuses on the influence literary sources and contemporary theatre had on his work. Shadows and light, high drama and the supernatural, these elements are hallmarks of Henry Fuseli's paintings. Accompanying a long-overdue show of Fuseli's works inspired by literary sources, this book addresses his appreciation of Greek tragedy, Shakespearian drama, and Milton's monumental verse epos Paradise Lost. While most of the criticism around Fuseli focuses on his nightmarish visions indicative of the emerging era of Dark Romanticism, this book examines the dramatic elements both in subject matter and style of his paintings, which include themes of triumph and despair rendered in sharp contrast and explosive expression. Illustrated with brilliant reproductions, the essays in this book explore Fuseli's world of literary sources as well as his new approach to the stage arts, and how the enthusiasm for Shakespeare in the 18th century played a part in the conception and marketing of Fuseli's work, thus creating a more comprehensive understanding of his background, time, and world view.