Slayton Jessica - The Great Illustrators Of Edgar Allan Poe - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: 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 Dor 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. While many of the artists included in the book are represented in important collections from libraries and art galleries around the world Poe scholars (and art historians) have yet to explore both the range of these illustrations and analyze their significance in the context of how they enrich our understanding of Poe. Some of the questions this book seeks to answer are: What was there about Poe's narrative and poetic art that impressed and continues to inspire illustrators and other visual artists? What kinds of insights and understandings do these visual artists help readers of Poe to see and/or reconsider about his work? Are there definite distinctions e. g. stylistic thematic historical etc. that were more relevant to Poe illustrators from the nineteenth century compared to those from the twentieth? How are these emphases reflective of the various art movements to which Poe's illustrators were associated? And lastly what do these illustrations reveal about changing attitudes and critical emphases toward Poe's canon over time?
Title: The Great Illustrators Of Edgar Allan Poe
Author(s): Slayton Jessica
Publisher: Anthem Press
Barcode: 9781785277832
Pages: 212 Pages
Publication Date: 5/11/2021
Series: Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series
Category: Art & Design Styles: Impressionism & Post-Impressionism