Fantasy Aesthetics

Fantasy Aesthetics
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Publisher : transcript Verlag
Total Pages : 265
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ISBN-10 : 9783839470589
ISBN-13 : 3839470587
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Book Synopsis Fantasy Aesthetics by : Hans Rudolf Velten

Download or read book Fantasy Aesthetics written by Hans Rudolf Velten and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantasy novels are products of popular culture. They owe their popularity also to the visualization of medievalist artifacts on book covers and designs, illustrations, maps, and marketing: Castles on towering cliffs, cathedral-like architecture, armored heroes and enchanting fairies, fierce dragons and mages follow mythical archetypes and develop pictorial aesthetics of fantasy, completed by gothic fonts, maps and page layout that refer to medieval manuscripts and chronicles. The contributors to this volume explore the patterns and paradigms of a specific medievalist iconography and book design of fantasy which can be traced from the 19th century to the present.

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