Gothic Nightmares: Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic ImaginationHarry N. Abrams, 2006 - 224 sidor The 1770s was marked by the emergence of themes of violence, horror and the supernatural in art: the birth of the Gothic. In 1782, the unveiling of Henry Fuseli's painting The Nightmare was met with a mixture of shock and fascination. The cosmic visions of William Blake, the vast, neo-classical history paintings of James Barry and the searing, grotesque caricatures of James Gilray all emerged during a time of political and social upheaval, matched by similarly extreme developments in the literature of the period. While there have been several critical reassessments of Gothic literature in recent years, Gothic Nightmares, which accompanies a groundbreaking exhibition at Tate Britain, will be the first serious consideration of these themes in visual art.Six sections explore individual themes: the Gothic nightmare, examining Fuseli's famous painting in context; the Sublime vision of the Gothic hero, tortured and imprisoned; |
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... natural , beautiful and clear ' and ' NATURE must be the foundation that must be seen at the bottom ; but nature must be raised and improved in the painter's mind . For an artist such as Fuseli who liked to assert ' Damn Nature ! she ...
... natural , beautiful and clear ' and ' NATURE must be the foundation that must be seen at the bottom ; but nature must be raised and improved in the painter's mind . For an artist such as Fuseli who liked to assert ' Damn Nature ! she ...
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... nature sinking down to rest With feasts too late , too solid , or too full ... Not all a monarch's luxury the woes Can counterpoise , of that most wretched man , Whose nights are shaken with the frantic fits Of wild Orestes ; whose ...
... nature sinking down to rest With feasts too late , too solid , or too full ... Not all a monarch's luxury the woes Can counterpoise , of that most wretched man , Whose nights are shaken with the frantic fits Of wild Orestes ; whose ...
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... nature , get down on all fours and eat grass in Hyde Park . ' No four legs ! No state of nature ! No acorns !, replied Fuseli , over and over again , in his Remarks . Fuseli's engraved frontispiece to the Remarks also refers to the ...
... nature , get down on all fours and eat grass in Hyde Park . ' No four legs ! No state of nature ! No acorns !, replied Fuseli , over and over again , in his Remarks . Fuseli's engraved frontispiece to the Remarks also refers to the ...
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Foreword | 6 |
Acknowledgements | 7 |
Somewhere between the Sublime and the Ridiculous Christopher Frayling | 9 |
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