Tracing Ophelia from Millais to Contemporary Art: Literary, Pictorial and Digital Icons
Since the 1980s, John Everett Millais’s emblematic oil painting, Ophelia (1851–1852) has been remarkably framed by feminist discourses on gender that convincingly demonstrated how the representation of female death could be linked to patriarchal tradition whose underlying discourse was to tame, cont...
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| description | Since the 1980s, John Everett Millais’s emblematic oil painting, Ophelia (1851–1852) has been remarkably framed by feminist discourses on gender that convincingly demonstrated how the representation of female death could be linked to patriarchal tradition whose underlying discourse was to tame, control and ultimately objectify women. More recently, further investigation of the Shakespearean character as it resurfaced in literature, film and cinema has brought to light the inherent contradictions relating to her very nature: the more Ophelia is represented and made visible in literature and the arts, the more she seems to be vanishing. Starting with the emblematic Pre-Raphaelite painting, this article aims to establish a critical dialogue between works of various periods and various media, ranging from the Victorian era to the present day to demonstrate the mutations and persistence of Millais’s icon. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-409f42ba492e4ab49be998f4f5fc2c822025-01-30T10:22:22ZengPresses Universitaires de la MéditerranéeCahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens0220-56102271-61492019-06-018910.4000/cve.5438Tracing Ophelia from Millais to Contemporary Art: Literary, Pictorial and Digital IconsLaurence Roussillon-ConstantySince the 1980s, John Everett Millais’s emblematic oil painting, Ophelia (1851–1852) has been remarkably framed by feminist discourses on gender that convincingly demonstrated how the representation of female death could be linked to patriarchal tradition whose underlying discourse was to tame, control and ultimately objectify women. More recently, further investigation of the Shakespearean character as it resurfaced in literature, film and cinema has brought to light the inherent contradictions relating to her very nature: the more Ophelia is represented and made visible in literature and the arts, the more she seems to be vanishing. Starting with the emblematic Pre-Raphaelite painting, this article aims to establish a critical dialogue between works of various periods and various media, ranging from the Victorian era to the present day to demonstrate the mutations and persistence of Millais’s icon.https://journals.openedition.org/cve/5438paintingOpheliaShakespeare (William)Millais (John Everett)pre-Raphaelitesintertext |
| spellingShingle | Laurence Roussillon-Constanty Tracing Ophelia from Millais to Contemporary Art: Literary, Pictorial and Digital Icons Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens painting Ophelia Shakespeare (William) Millais (John Everett) pre-Raphaelites intertext |
| title | Tracing Ophelia from Millais to Contemporary Art: Literary, Pictorial and Digital Icons |
| title_full | Tracing Ophelia from Millais to Contemporary Art: Literary, Pictorial and Digital Icons |
| title_fullStr | Tracing Ophelia from Millais to Contemporary Art: Literary, Pictorial and Digital Icons |
| title_full_unstemmed | Tracing Ophelia from Millais to Contemporary Art: Literary, Pictorial and Digital Icons |
| title_short | Tracing Ophelia from Millais to Contemporary Art: Literary, Pictorial and Digital Icons |
| title_sort | tracing ophelia from millais to contemporary art literary pictorial and digital icons |
| topic | painting Ophelia Shakespeare (William) Millais (John Everett) pre-Raphaelites intertext |
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