Savage Eye: Melville and the Visual ArtsChristopher Sten Kent State University Press, 1991 - 338 стор. Melville's interest in the visual arts and the translation of that interest into his writings is at the center of this new interdisciplinary study of one of America's most celebrated writers. Melville's lifelong engagement with the visual arts has been noted in other works, but only Savage Eye suggests the extraordinary depth and range of the author's multifaceted interest in the subject. Editor Christopher Sten has collected 13 essays from 12 specialists in the field to produce this ground-breaking study which connects Melville's writings with topics relating to the arts of painting, printmaking, sculpture, architecture, and landscape design, as well as art history. Sten's comprehensive introduction provides readers with a historical overview of the subject, detailing the many works of art Melville knew and commented upon at each stage of his career. He explains when and where in Melville's wanderings throughout America, Europe, and the Near East he saw these works, then describes how Melville made use of the life and work of these artists in his own fiction and poetry. The collection includes new essays on Moby Dick and J.M.W. Turner; Melville's fascination with Dutch genre painting; his appropriation of work by Cole and Vanderlyn for his magazine fiction; his use of early representations of the plague in Israel Potter; the relationship between the satirical cartoons of Daumier and the figures of The Confidence-Man; Timoleon's many artistic subjects; and the power of classical icons to shape the moral and aesthetic conflicts in Billy Budd. Also found here are theoretical essays on Melville and the picturesque; the modernism of Melville's aesthetic vision; his "anti-architectural"theory of literature; and his extensive reading in art history and art theory, from the classical to his own period. Savage Eye argues persuasively that the visual arts sources are comparable in importance to the literary arts in the formation of Melville's work and vision. The contributors thus lead the reader to an appreciation of the rich array of artistic images that were available to Americans of the previous century, and thereby extend not only our understanding of Melville, but of ourselves and our collective history. |
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Melvilles Reading in the Visual Arts | 40 |
Bulkington J M W Turner and The Lee Shore | 55 |
Melvilles Temples | 77 |
Melville and Architecture | 104 |
Ruin and Historical Fate from | 117 |
Melvilles Picturesque | 145 |
Melvilles Israel Potter Baron Gros | 162 |
Daumiers Robert Macaire and Melvilles Confidence | 179 |
Overtures from the Journal of 18561857 | 200 |
Melville and Dutch Genre Painting | 218 |
Melvilles Use of the Visual Arts | 246 |
Appendix A | 277 |
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Contributors | 323 |
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