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The Raven Illustrations of James Carling: Poe's Classic in Vivid View
Contributor(s): Semtner, Chris (Author)
ISBN: 1626196729     ISBN-13: 9781626196728
Publisher: History Press
OUR PRICE:   $22.49  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 2015
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BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv)
- Biography & Autobiography | Artists, Architects, Photographers
- Art | Techniques - Drawing
Dewey: 741.9
LCCN: 2014033887
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 7.4" W x 9.1" (0.70 lbs) 128 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
One of the most popular poems in the English language, Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" has thrilled generations of readers. In 1882, the Anglo-American artist James Carling decided to produce the definitive series of illustrations for the poem. Carling's bizarre images explore the darkest recesses of Poe's masterpiece, its hidden symbolism and its strange beauty. Although the series remained unpublished at the time of the artist's early death in 1887, the drawings reemerged fifty years later, when they entered the collection of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond. There they lined the blood-red walls of a Raven Room dedicated to their display. For the first time, author and Poe historian Christopher P. Semtner reproduces the entire series and tells the story behind these haunting works.

Contributor Bio(s): Semtner, Chris: - The curator of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Richmond, Virginia, Christopher Semtner has served as author, co-author or editor of several books including the History Press title Edgar Allan Poe's Richmond: The Raven in the River City." He has created museum exhibits on Poe in the Comics, Poe's Mysterious Death and Poe in the Movies. The New York Times called the exhibit he curated for the Library of Virginia, Poe: Man, Myth, or Monster, "provocative" and "a playful, robust exhibit.""