Goya and the Mystery of Reading | Buch | 978-0-8265-0533-0 | sack.de

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Goya and the Mystery of Reading

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

ISBN: 978-0-8265-0533-0
Verlag: Vanderbilt University Press


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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- Author's Note
- Introduction: Francisco de Goya and the Reading Revolutions
- Chapter 1: Reading and Politics
- Chapter 2: Reading and the Self
- Chapter 3: Reading, Leisure, and Sensuality
- Chapter 4: Reading and the Contours of the Human
- Afterword: Words Written at the Edge of Shadows
- Bibliography
- Image Credits


Luis Martín-Estudillo, Associate Professor of Spanish Literature and Culture at the University of Iowa, is Managing Editor of the Hispanic Issues series published by Vanderbilt.


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