FASCINATING LIAISONS BETWEEN WORDS AND IMAGES
INTRODUCTION In Part I, we considered the different ways in which poets represent the visual arts in their own medium: the word. Part 2 focuses on Illustration and, in turn, the ways in which the visual arts represent texts in their own medium: the image. Recalling Lessing’s dictum that the arts do not represent in …
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(Van Gogh’s “Noon-day Rest”, 1890) The summer heat is upon us, so it’s time for this blogger to keep cool, read those wonderful books on the ever-growing list, and practice Bach solo suites. I will be back in touch in September, when the rains come again! In celebration of summer, I leave you with an …
This chapter offers a journey into the world that gave rise to the mysterious ‘Lady of Shallot’ and her many illustrators. To understand why the Pre-Raphaelites produced such a wide variety of responses to the lady, who transgressed by leaving her mirror to look out upon the real world, it’s helpful to understand how the …
In our previous chapter, we discussed 19th century norms and values as they applied to Victorian womanhood. Alfred Lord Tennyson’s ‘Lady of Shalott’, one of his much-loved (and much-debated) poems, raises many of the questions surrounding the woman’s place in a patriarchal society, and, in this sense, Tennyson was the quintessential ‘Victorian writer’ because of …