Description - Translating John Crome: Through Sight to Insight by Andrew Moore
The word ‘translation’ is not used lightly here. This
is not an anthology of creative pieces by a
variety of artists from different media ‘inspired by’ or
‘expressing a kinship with’ Crome’s paintings. These are
translations in the sense of transformations into new
languages, where the transformations and juxtapositions
are designed both to incorporate the perceptual and
existential responses of the ‘translator’ to examples
of Crome’s work and to project those works into
possible cross-medial futures. The book is as much
about ‘looking’ across media, as about John Crome.
What kinds of transformation do the
landscapes and plant studies of John
Crome (1768–1821), once considered the equal of
J.M.W. Turner, undergo when translated into other
‘languages’ or media? The twenty contributors to
this volume, from fields as diverse as travel-writing,
poetry, painting, photography and ceramics, provide
a range of answers, and in so doing, uncover new
futures for Crome’s work.
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