Mixing Colors, Making Designs: A. S. Byatt's "Racine and the Tablecloth, " "Rose-Coloured Teacups, " and "Sugar". Issue 3 (27th May 2017)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- Mixing Colors, Making Designs: A. S. Byatt's "Racine and the Tablecloth, " "Rose-Coloured Teacups, " and "Sugar". Issue 3 (27th May 2017)
- Main Title:
- Mixing Colors, Making Designs: A. S. Byatt's "Racine and the Tablecloth, " "Rose-Coloured Teacups, " and "Sugar"
- Authors:
- Stewart, Jack
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: Themes of intellectual design, decorative pattern, color stimulus, visual art, and creativity form the framework of A. S. Byatt's Sugar and Other Stories . In "Racine and the Tablecloth, " "Rose-Coloured Teacups, " and "Sugar, " Byatt translates emotion, intellect, sense, and memory into a language of "fictionalized autobiography" that self-reflexively sheds light on her creative development. The dramatic language of Racine provides a model of intellectual design that contrasts with the embroidered pattern of a tablecloth. A retrospective vision of rose-colored teacups on a tablecloth signifies Victorian décor, implicitly compared with a still life by Matisse (cover illustration). The mixed colors of molten sugar awaken a child's aesthetic sense in a way later associated with Van Gogh's paintings and ekphrastically reflected in the novel Still Life . The three stories examined reveal important aspects of Byatt's fictional art and aesthetic values.
- Is Part Of:
- Critique. Volume 58:Issue 3(2017)
- Journal:
- Critique
- Issue:
- Volume 58:Issue 3(2017)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 58, Issue 3 (2017)
- Year:
- 2017
- Volume:
- 58
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2017-0058-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 237
- Page End:
- 247
- Publication Date:
- 2017-05-27
- Subjects:
- A. S. Byatt -- design -- pattern -- color -- creativity
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http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/00111619.2016.1211602 ↗
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- 0011-1619
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