How to Tell a Fairy Tale With Images: Narrative Theories and French Paintings from the Early Nineteenth Century
This article first discusses theoretical approaches to the question of pictorial narrative, and argues that images can generate a narrative, but do so by different means than texts. Consequently, visual narratives should not be analysed using the same criteria as developed for textual narratives. Ba...
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| description | This article first discusses theoretical approaches to the question of pictorial narrative, and argues that images can generate a narrative, but do so by different means than texts. Consequently, visual narratives should not be analysed using the same criteria as developed for textual narratives. Based on this idea, the article further analyses two French paintings from the early nineteenth century that represent a fairy tale by visual means alone, and which can be considered as paintings that tell a fairy tale: Petit Chaperon rouge (c. 1820) by Fleury François Richard, and Peau d’âne (1819) by Jean‐Antoine Laurent. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-461fac9e933c46a190818d3ff6c17e8c2022-12-21T23:29:38ZengRadboud University Press in cooperation with Open JournalsRelief: Revue Électronique de Littérature Francaise1873-50452010-12-0142How to Tell a Fairy Tale With Images: Narrative Theories and French Paintings from the Early Nineteenth CenturyMargriet HoogvlietThis article first discusses theoretical approaches to the question of pictorial narrative, and argues that images can generate a narrative, but do so by different means than texts. Consequently, visual narratives should not be analysed using the same criteria as developed for textual narratives. Based on this idea, the article further analyses two French paintings from the early nineteenth century that represent a fairy tale by visual means alone, and which can be considered as paintings that tell a fairy tale: Petit Chaperon rouge (c. 1820) by Fleury François Richard, and Peau d’âne (1819) by Jean‐Antoine Laurent.https://revue-relief.org/article/view/8992Narrative imagespaintings of fairy talesnineteenth centuryFrançois Fleury Richard (1777-1852)Jean-Antoine Laurent (1763-1832) |
| spellingShingle | Margriet Hoogvliet How to Tell a Fairy Tale With Images: Narrative Theories and French Paintings from the Early Nineteenth Century Relief: Revue Électronique de Littérature Francaise Narrative images paintings of fairy tales nineteenth century François Fleury Richard (1777-1852) Jean-Antoine Laurent (1763-1832) |
| title | How to Tell a Fairy Tale With Images: Narrative Theories and French Paintings from the Early Nineteenth Century |
| title_full | How to Tell a Fairy Tale With Images: Narrative Theories and French Paintings from the Early Nineteenth Century |
| title_fullStr | How to Tell a Fairy Tale With Images: Narrative Theories and French Paintings from the Early Nineteenth Century |
| title_full_unstemmed | How to Tell a Fairy Tale With Images: Narrative Theories and French Paintings from the Early Nineteenth Century |
| title_short | How to Tell a Fairy Tale With Images: Narrative Theories and French Paintings from the Early Nineteenth Century |
| title_sort | how to tell a fairy tale with images narrative theories and french paintings from the early nineteenth century |
| topic | Narrative images paintings of fairy tales nineteenth century François Fleury Richard (1777-1852) Jean-Antoine Laurent (1763-1832) |
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