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Fuseli's Milton Gallery: 'Turning Readers Into Spectators'

Fuseli's Milton Gallery: 'Turning Readers Into Spectators'

Hardcover

Series: Oxford English Monographs

Art Criticism & TheoryLiterary CriticismEuropean Art

ISBN10: 0199267383
ISBN13: 9780199267385
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Mar 1 2007
Pages: 292
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
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, Luisa Calè analyzes 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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