Portret
by:
Nikolay Gogol (author)
Nikolai Gogol's "The Portrait" is a short story about art. First written in 1835 and then significantly revised in 1842, the work explores a central concern in Romantic aesthetics: the role of the artist and his creation. Through a series of ekphrases, i.e. literary representations of visual art,...
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Nikolai Gogol's "The Portrait" is a short story about art. First written in 1835 and then significantly revised in 1842, the work explores a central concern in Romantic aesthetics: the role of the artist and his creation. Through a series of ekphrases, i.e. literary representations of visual art, the narrative of "The Portrait" examines the act of representational painting
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ISBN:
8385606254
Publisher: Dom Wydawniczy Szczepan Szymanski
Edition language: Russian
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Art,
Russia,
Russian Literature,
Horror,
Short Stories,
Fiction,
Novella
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