{"id":372,"date":"2017-02-22T15:19:10","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T20:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/?p=372"},"modified":"2017-02-22T15:19:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T20:19:10","slug":"genres-in-illustration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/uncategorized\/genres-in-illustration\/","title":{"rendered":"Genres in Illustration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today in class, I found our discussion of genre +\u00a0<em>Don Quixote<\/em> of particular interest. We\u00a0discussed the necessity of artists who attempt to illustrate the story to pick a particular genre, and stick with said genre in their interpretation.<\/p>\n<p>In my own opinion, I find that what makes <em>Don Quixote<\/em> so successful, is it&#8217;s ability to fulfill the needs of <strong>many<\/strong>\u00a0genres\/categories. It seems to be\u00a0almost &#8220;uncategorizable&#8221;. The book has been around for centuries, enjoyed by children and adults alike. It&#8217;s appeal to a wide variety of audiences suggests to me that each reader gets their own preferred genre out of the text (whether it&#8217;s romance, farce, satire, etc). Therefore, <em>Don Quixote<\/em>&#8216;s &#8220;adaptability&#8221; could be something utilized by artists in their visual interpretations. Instead of sticking to one genre in a depiction, demonstrating the malleability of the text seems appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Do you guys agree? Is it possible to create successful artwork when appealing to a large variety of genres? Does an artist <em>have<\/em> to pick just one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in class, I found our discussion of genre +\u00a0Don Quixote of particular interest. We\u00a0discussed the necessity of artists who attempt to illustrate the story to pick a particular genre, and stick with said genre in their interpretation. In my own opinion, I find that what makes Don Quixote so successful, is it&#8217;s ability to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/uncategorized\/genres-in-illustration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Genres in Illustration&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamiltoncs.org\/lit220\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}