Romantic Art in Practice - Cultural Work and the Sister Arts, 1760-1820

Explores the developing cultural tensions and connections that created a 'sister-art' movement between creative visual art and its literary counterparts.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Original copies: Wedgwood's Portland Vase in paint and poem; 2. William Blake, antiquarians, and the status of copy; 3. Literary galleries and the media ecology: painting for print in the age of anthologies; 4. Poetry against the wall: the (sister) arts in crisis; 5. Crossing the line: engraving, John Landseer and the aftermath of the Shakespeare gallery; 6. Ravaged brides: Grecian urns on romantic paper; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Thora Brylowe is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Summary

This book engages with the professional politics and labour practices of Romantic period artists and craftsmen as they translated creative literary work into visual art. Exploring the developing cultural tensions and connections that created a 'sister-art' movement in the period of new print technology and mass media.

Product details

• Authors: Thora Brylowe, Thora (University of Colorado Boulder) Brylowe, BRYLOWE THORA
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781108426404
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42640-4
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism; Cambridge Studies in Romantici; Cambridge Studies in Romanticism; Cambridge Studies in Romantici
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, History of Art, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Romanticism, Art & design styles: Romanticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets