Romantic Art in Practice

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'[A] memorable, assured, and refreshingly readable history ... of the pressures brought to bear on the interconnectivity between poetry and painting in London's art world during the Romantic period.' Sarah Wootton, The Review of English Studies 'Nearly every example presented in the book reveals the pervasiveness of multimedia practices. This intermeshing of word and image, of book and visual arts, is apparent in the literary galleries, of course, but we also learn about how Wedgwood displayed his commercial vases in galleries with accompanying descriptive catalogues, and how ancient urns themselves came to be known largely through the many two-dimensional reproductions of them, in printed engravings and poetic reconstructions. The examples presented demonstrate the inadvisability of separating the study of one media from another, as our disciplinary boundaries have tended to impose upon us.' Michelle Levy, The Wordsworth Circle 'Thora Brylowe's Romantic Art in Practice: Cultural Work and the Sister Arts, 1760-1820 joins other recent scholarship to situate literary print culture within its larger medial sphere ... The book examines the translation and adaptation of word to image, and more broadly of visual culture across media.' Michelle Levy, The Wordsworth Circle