Tony Magistrale, Jessica Slayton

The Great Illustrators of Edgar Allan Poe (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785277856
• Artikelnr.: 61447078

Autorenporträt

Tony Magistrale is the author of 23 books and over 70 academic journal articles. He is a professor in the English department at the University of Vermont.

Jess Slayton has spent nearly her entire academic career grappling with the ekphrastic interchange between visual and textual arts. She revels in finding new illustrations for classic texts and has yet to find any she loves more than those done on Poe's work.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Theoretical Underpinnings
1. The French Poe
2. Visualizing Poe for a New Century
3. Crossing the Fin de Siècle and the English Channel
4. A Parergon for Poe: Arthur Rackham's Illustrations
5. Postmodern Poe
Works Cited
Index.