International Journal of Humanities and Social Science

ISSN 2220-8488 (Print), 2221-0989 (Online) 10.30845/ijhss

Gustave Doré Y El Libro De Ruth De Gilberto Owen: Una Interpretación Visual
Dr. Alfredo Zárate Flores, Jaime Obed Cervantes Pérez

Abstract
The present article tries to develop a link between the poetic expression of the mexican writer Gilberto Owen and the plastic expression of the french illustrator GustaveDoré. We are interested in developing a visual interpretation of Owen's poems The Book of Ruth. This work explores some categories of the illustration of Doré to develop, from the use of foreshortening, the sequence of plans and the illumination five illustrations whose intention is to make manifest the relationship between literature and the visual arts from a perspective related to eroticism from the George Bataille´sperpective.

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