The Symbolist Conception of Illustration and Tyra Kleen’s "Nevermore"

• This paper examines the Swedish graphic artist Tyra Kleen's lithograph "Nevermore", made at the turn of the 20th-century, and its interrelation of text and image. Rather than functioning as a mere appendage to Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" (1845), Kleen's "Nevermore" seems to destabilize the traditional function of an illustration, at the same time that new meaning is created through the interplay of the visual and textual features. By discussing text-image relationships on a formal and content-based level, this paper relates Kleen's work of art to the conception of 'symbolist illustrations' and their innovative and liberated coexistence of text and image.

Ämnesord

HUMANIORA  -- Konst -- Bildkonst (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Arts -- Visual Arts (hsv//eng)

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Litteraturstudier (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- Specific Literatures (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Tyra Kleen; symbolism; text-image-relationships; illustration; the turn of the 20th-century

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