![]() ![]() ![]() Like theirs, his work was human-centric, but with an underlined emphasis on the perpetuation of intentional violence. ![]() ![]() As a result, Rackham's art took part in emphasizing forms of the grotesque and mental illness, as did the Decadents- Clarke and Beardsley, for example- before him, but moved further in expressing the true horror of death, torture, and the futility and meaninglessness of human endeavors. Entirely new ways of thinking about war had to be invented, and artists could not ignore its global impact. Rackham's images of Poe were published after The Great War and thus captured some of the violence evinced in the deaths of 16 million people, while leaving millions more maimed and mentally broken. British Modernist illustrator Arthur Rackham was influenced by Baudelaire, the French Symbolist poets, and particularly the French illustrators from the nineteenth century like these predecessors, Rackham eventually turned to Edgar Allan Poe's texts as subject material for his art. ![]()
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