Creator of Nightmares: Henry Fuseli's Art and Life by Baker, Christopher

Creator of Nightmares: Henry Fuseli's Art and Life (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781789149302)

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Format: Hardcover
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Creator of Nightmares: Henry Fuseli's Art and Life by Baker, Christopher

Creator of Nightmares: Henry Fuseli's Art and Life

$45.00
Creator of Nightmares: Henry Fuseli's Art and Life by Baker, Christopher

Creator of Nightmares: Henry Fuseli's Art and Life

$45.00
Format: Hardcover
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A critical biography of the eighteenth-century painter.

Henry Fuseli (1741-1825) was one of the eighteenth century's most provocative and inventive artists. He is best known for his painting The Nightmare, which channeled a new form of gothic imagery for the Romantic age. This engaging study of the artist's career unveils Fuseli's complexities, navigating contradictions between literary and painted works, sacred and secular themes, and traditional patronage versus competitive exhibitions. Plotting Fuseli's trajectory from Zurich to Paris, Rome, and ultimately London, Creator of Nightmares paints an image of Fuseli as an astute marketer and self-proclaimed genius who transformed himself from a priest to an Enlightenment writer, a mercurial force in the art world, and finally a revered teacher.

Author: Christopher Baker
ISBN-10: 1789149304
ISBN-13: 9781789149302
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Language: English
Published: 02/05/2025
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
By Christopher Baker
By Christopher Baker
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Christopher Baker is editor of the Burlington Magazine and an honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh. He is a former director at the National Galleries of Scotland.

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