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Goya and the Mystery of Reading (Paperback)
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Goya and the Mystery of Reading (Paperback)
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Spanish artist Francisco Goya (1746-1828) was fascinated by
reading, and Goya's attention to the act and consequences of
literacy-apparent in some of his most ambitious, groundbreaking
creations-is related to the reading revolution in which he
participated. It was an unprecedented growth both in the number of
readers and in the quantity and diversity of texts available,
accompanied by a profound shift in the way they were consumed and,
for the artist, represented. Goya and the Mystery of Reading
studies the way Goya's work heralds the emergence of a new kind of
viewer, one who he assumes can and does read, and whose comportment
as a skilled interpreter of signs alters the sense of his art,
multiplying its potential for meaning. While the reading revolution
resulted from and contributed to the momentous social
transformations of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries, Goya and the Mystery of Reading explains how this
transition can be tracked in the work of Goya, an artist who aimed
not to copy the world around him, but to read it.
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