{"product_id":"henry-fuseli-by-carolyn-keay","title":"Henry Fuseli by Carolyn Keay","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe art of Henry Fuseli has never been appreciated as it deserves. Although he was hailed in his own time as distinguished as a literary character and known to all Europe, he has too often been overlooked in the shadow of Blake or dismissed as a literary painter. Yet his work as a repertoire of his fantasies, bizarre, grotesque, sublime and beautiful in turns. Dreams and the supernatural held an obsessive fascination for him, and his illustrations to the literature of Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, and the Nordic legends teem with apparitions, ghosts and goblins. In his work erotic cynicism and a love of allegorical allusion combine wit ha haunting and recurring symbolism in visions of Romantic horror and extravagant imagination. This selection of nearly 100 paintings and drawings by Henry Fuseli include not only his most famous paintings, but many works which are more rarely seen, among them a large number of graphic works which Fuseli's own particular vision and ideas found their purest expression. In addition, nine of his most fascinating oil paintings are beautifully reproduced in full color. Carolyn Keay's concise outline of the obsessive preoccupations of the artist and his original visionary qualities is an interesting and indispensable introduction to the work of this often neglected but important artist. 93 illustrations including 9 in full color.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44150298017866,"sku":"5458an","price":10.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/5458an_7a6193d5-7f39-47e9-b00d-67d60d02ae6a.jpg?v=1788421838","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/henry-fuseli-by-carolyn-keay","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}