- Title
- Samuel Palmer and Romanticism
- Creator
- Chapman, Anton
- Subject
- Uncatalogued
- Date
- 1985
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193269
- Identifier
- vital:45316
- Description
- This introduction and ensuing essay are something in the nature of a personal confession. Deemed as such what I have written concerning Samuel Palmer has not, in any way, been written as an exercise, but rather for the purpose of self-edification. This I will elaborate upon while disclosing my motive for writing on Palmer. Palmer's works - when I first saw them - were something of a revelation. They seemed the alpha and omega of my own artistic endeavour. Perhaps the term which best describes the euphoria I felt is 1deja vu1, because although it describes a connectedness of sorts, the words have in their sound an exotic ring. There is in it an implied equivocation - and equivocality best describes my understanding of Samuel Palmer at that juncture. This euphoria I felt dimmed with the realisation that by purportedly claiming, as I was, Samuel Palmer's visionary landscapes as my goal I was treading on sacred ground; I'd arrived, as it were, in another's Paradise. The effects of this upon my own creativity were completely negative. Worse still, I lacked the necessary means to extricate myself from Palmer's paradisiacal visions. His influence was incapacitating and convoluting my own growth. It was obvious then that I had to be rid of Samuel Palmer.
- Description
- Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, Fine Art, 1985
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (87 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Fine Art
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Chapman, Anton
- Rights
- Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Rights
- Open Access
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