Desire and Excess: The Nineteenth-century Culture of ArtPrinceton University Press, 2000 M08 20 - 352 pages In this fascinating look at the creative power of institutions, Jonah Siegel explores the rise of the modern idea of the artist in the nineteenth century, a period that also witnessed the emergence of the museum and the professional critic. Treating these developments as interrelated, he analyzes both visual material and literary texts to portray a culture in which art came to be thought of in powerful new ways. Ultimately, Siegel shows that artistic controversies commonly associated with the self-consciously radical movements of modernism and postmodernism have their roots in a dynamic era unfairly characterized as staid, self-satisfied, and stable. |
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... Laocoon : Stupendous Originals PART TWO : THE AUTHOR AS WORK OF ART : ACCUMULATION , DISPLAY , AND DEATH IN LITERARY BIOGRAPHY CHAPTER FOUR Hazlitt , Scott , Lockhart : Intimacy , Anonymity , and Excess " That Which is Unseen " : The ...
... Laocoön at Large . " Oxford , Ashmolean Museum . 45 17. Henry Fuseli , Satirische Selbstkarikatur , 1778. Zurich , Kunsthaus . 46 18. Sleeping Faun . Hellenistic bronze , found 1756. Naples , Museo Archeologico Nazionale . 48 19. Fuseli ...
... Laocoon as Jehovah with Satan and Adam , circa 1818. Cambridge , Fitzwilliam Museum . 34. William Blake , " Sculpture , " plate III . Abraham Rees , Cy- clopedia ; or Universal Dictionary of Arts , Science , and Literature ( London ...
... Laocoon or the Apollo Belvedere , or , indeed , that some will prefer objects from Africa , the Far East , or elsewhere to any of these , but that we now be- lieve we have — and in part do have — different ways of understanding the ...
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Contents
David and Fuseli The Artist in the Museum the Museum in the Work of Art | 17 |
The Oaths | 18 |
Before Ruins | 28 |
Monuments of Pure Antiquity The Challenge of the Object in Neoclassical Theory and Pedagogy | 40 |
The Statue and the Penis | 47 |
The Penis and the Statue | 64 |
United Completer Knowledge Barry Blake and the Search for the Artist | 73 |
Blake and the Work of Art | 76 |
ABSENCE AND EXCESS THE PRESENCE OF THE OBJECT | 165 |
Outline Collection City Hazlitt Ruskin and the Encounter with Art | 167 |
Asking for the Old Pictures Hazlitts Dream of the Louvre | 168 |
Art Treasure Exhibition | 180 |
Hazlitt and Ruskin on Flaxman | 189 |
Vast KnowledgeNarrow Space The Stones of Venice | 197 |
The Natures of Gothic | 209 |
THE DEATHS OF THE CRITICS | 225 |
Stupendous Originals | 80 |
THE AUTHOR AS WORK OF ART ACCUMULATION DISPLAY AND DEATH IN LITERARY BIOGRAPHY | 91 |
Hazlitt Scott Lockhart Intimacy Anonymity and Excess | 93 |
Hazlitt on Contemporary Life | 102 |
The Life of Scott | 113 |
Keats In the Library in the Museum | 130 |
Accommodating Art | 133 |
The Museum of the Mind | 150 |