Fuseli's Milton Gallery : 'Turning Readers into Spectators'.
Luisa. Cale
Bok Engelsk 2007 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (290 pages)
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| Opplysninger | Intro -- Contents -- List of Plates -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: 'Turning Readers into Spectators' -- 1. The Literary Galleries and the Field of Art -- Commerce, Art, and Public Culture -- Literary Investments -- Fuseli's Milton Gallery -- Private Interest-Public Benefit: Fuseli's Career -- 2. The Spectator Turned Reader: Printed Text at the Galleries -- The Spectator as Reader -- Reading Aids at Exhibitions -- Macklin's Catalogue: Excerpting and Viewing the Poets -- Fuseli's Catalogue: Excerpting and Abridging Milton -- Fuseli's Milton: Epic and Painting -- Poems on the Galleries: The Reader Turned Spectator Turned Author -- 3. The Reader Turned Spectator: Visual Narratives -- Visual Bookkeeping -- Educating the Eye: A Reader's Progress -- Technologies of Vision: Magic Lanterns, the Eidophusikon, and Panoramas -- Viewing Practices and Moving Pictures -- Gallery Plots -- Towards Montage -- 4. 'Satan encount'ring Death, Sin interposing': Milton's Allegory and the Politics of Seeing -- Representing Supernatural Beings -- Lapland Orgies -- Pictures at Exhibitions and the Politics of Obscurity -- 5. The Plot of Adam and Eve -- Conclusion -- Appendix: 'List of Pictures in the Milton Gallery', The Times, 28 May 1799 -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.. - Between 1791 and 1799 Swiss painter Henry Fuseli turned Milton's Paradise Lost into a series of 40 pictures that were exhibited in London in 1799 and 1800. Starting from Fuseli's adaptation, Calè analyses how visual practices impact on the act of reading and calls into question the separation of reading and viewing as autonomous aesthetic practices.
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