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

Exploring the relationship between visual art and literature in the Romantic period, this book makes a claim for a sister-arts 'moment' when the relationship between painting, sculpture, pottery and poetry held special potential for visual artists, engravers and artisans. Elaborating these cultural tensions and associations through a number of case studies, Thora Brylowe sheds light on often untold narratives of English labouring craftsmen and artists as they translated the literary into the visual. Brylowe investigates examples from across the visual spectrum including artefacts, such as Wedgwood's Portland Vase, antiquarianism through the work of William Blake, the career of engraver John Landseer, and the growing influence of libraries and galleries in the period, particularly Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery. Brylowe artfully traces the shifting cultural connections between the imaginative word and the image in a period that saw new print technologies deluge Britain with its first mass media.

Author: Thora Brylowe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 08/09/2018
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.31lbs
Size: 6.27h x 9.24w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9781108426404

About the Author
Brylowe, Thora: - Thora Brylowe is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder.