Goya and the Mystery of Reading (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Vanderbilt University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2023
Authors:	Luis Martin-Estudillo
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-0-8265-0533-0
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > Art styles not limited by date > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1600 to 1800 > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Individual artists > General Books > History > European history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	0-8265-0533-3
Barcode:	9780826505330

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