Poe and the Art of Painting: Tales to Be Seen—the First Spanish Illustrated Edition

The poetry and tales of Edgar Allan Poe present a body of work uniquely ripe for interdisciplinary analysis, particularly since his idea about unity of conception involves literary and visual aspects. The present study examines the pictorial dimension of Poe's tales, analyzing the art reference...

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Published in:The Edgar Allan Poe review 2018-04, Vol.19 (1), p.7-27
Main Authors: Rigal-Aragón, Margarita, González-Moreno, Fernando
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abstract art
Allegory
French literature
Graphic design
Illustration
Libraries
Literary criticism
Narrators
Tales
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Summary:The poetry and tales of Edgar Allan Poe present a body of work uniquely ripe for interdisciplinary analysis, particularly since his idea about unity of conception involves literary and visual aspects. The present study examines the pictorial dimension of Poe's tales, analyzing the art references that we can trace in some of his works. These written paintings become extraordinary sources of inspiration for innumerable artists who illustrate the images described in these texts; Poe's bizarre capacity to explore an astonishing visual richness—the beautiful, the grotesque, the macabre, the sublime, the picturesque—makes this task challenging. This article focuses on how the illustrator Fernando Xumetra approached Poe's works in the first illustrated Spanish edition (1887).
ISSN:2150-0428
2166-2932
DOI:10.5325/edgallpoerev.19.1.0007