Description
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.
About the Author
Luis Martin-Estudillo, Associate Professor of Spanish Literature and Culture at the University of Iowa, is Managing Editor of the Hispanic Issues series published by Vanderbilt.
Book Information
ISBN 9780826505323
Author Luis Martin-Estudillo
Format Paperback
Page Count 268
Imprint Vanderbilt University Press
Publisher Vanderbilt University Press
Weight(grams) 363g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 18mm
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.
About the Author
Luis Martin-Estudillo, Associate Professor of Spanish Literature and Culture at the University of Iowa, is Managing Editor of the Hispanic Issues series published by Vanderbilt.
Book Information
ISBN 9780826505323
Author Luis Martin-Estudillo
Format Paperback
Page Count 268
Imprint Vanderbilt University Press
Publisher Vanderbilt University Press
Weight(grams) 363g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 18mm
