Painting Shakespeare: The Artist as Critic, 1720-1820

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Cambridge University Press, 23.02.2006 - 337 Seiten
Painting Shakespeare explores the tradition of critical and interpretive painting and engraving that developed when eighteenth-century artists rejected the depiction of Shakespeare's plays in performance to produce images based on the new scholarly editions. The opening chapter locates Shakespeare painting alongside contemporary performance, editing and criticism, and discusses its relation to art history and practice. The book proceeds to examine Hogarth's use of ironic allusion, and the development of this and other techniques of critical visualisation by artists of the succeeding decades. Later chapters discuss the arcane allusions and supernatural visions of Fuseli, the gestural immediacy of Romney, the fluid, critical mythologising of Blake, and the compound subtleties of Reynolds. The book concludes with a study of the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery and the radically new reading practices it constituted.
 

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Placing Shakespeare painting
1
Play iconography and social discourse in Hogarths Shakespeare
37
Landscape readership and convention 174090
61
Fuseli and the uses of iconography
98
George Romney meditations of a volatile fancy
133
Shakespeare in riper years gave me his hand William Blake
159
General ideas and the familiar pathetic NeoClassical Shakespeare and Joshua Reynolds
186
Fuseli nature and supernature
219
A magnificent scheme if it can but be effected Boydell criticism and appropriation
254
Summations and departures
300
Select bibliography
313
Index
325
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Currently Professor of English at the University of Bergen, Stuart Sillars was previously a member of the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge, and has been a visiting professor at universities in Texas, Washington and Croatia. He has written extensively on the relationship between literature and the visual arts, with books including Art and Survival in First World War Britain (1987) and British Romantic Art and the Second World War (1991), and has had many articles and reviews published in major journals in the UK, Europe and the USA.

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