Henry Fuseli and gothic spectacle
Resource type
Journal article
Creator (person)
Myrone, Martin
Date published
2007
Abstract
In this essay, Martin Myrone explores aspects of the art of the Swiss-born painter Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) in the context of the transformation of the public culture of art in late-eighteenth-century Britain. Considering Fuseli's paintings of invented subjects exhibited at the Royal Academy in the 1780s, and his highly idiosyncratic and imaginative interpretation of Miltonic and other source material, the essay argues for the emergence in his work of a distinctively spectacular aesthetic, allied in its narrative effects and thematics both to gothic literature and to the new technologies of popular entertainment, notably the Phantasmagoria.
Journal title
Huntington Library Quarterly
Volume
70
Issue
2
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Place of publication
Philadelphia
ISSN
1544-399X
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