The great illustrators of Edgar Allan Poe / Tony Magistrale and Jessica Slayton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Magistrale, Tony, author.

Slayton, Jessica, author.

Series:

Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849--Illustrations.

Poe, Edgar Allan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Anthem Press, 2021.

Summary:

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, Doré, 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.

Contents:

Cover

Front Matter

Half title

Title page

Copyright information

Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter Int-5

Introduction: Theoretical Underpinnings

Chapter 1 The French Poe

Chapter 2 Visualizing Poe for a New Century

Chapter 3 Crossing the Fin de Siècle and the English Channel

Chapter 4 A Parergon for Poe: Arthur Rackham's Illustrations

Chapter 5 Postmodern Poe

End Matter

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jun 2021).

ISBN:

9781785277856

1785277855

9781785277849

1785277847

OCLC:

1246577377