Published 2019-06-01
“…The three Victorian artists created living pictures, which are commonly referred to as tableaux vivants and which offered visual interpretations of the following poems: Idylls of the King and The Lady of Shalott by Lord Alfred Tennyson, Tristram and Iseult by Matthew Arnold and The
Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti. Traditional arts such as painting, engraving and drawing attempted to illustrate the poems but the interdisciplinary nature of 19th-century photographic tableaux vivants enabled artists to associate real-based imagery with the metaphorical language of poetry. …”
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