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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... ( R 1997 ) ( Permanence of Paper ) www.pup.princeton.edu Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ( Pbk . ) CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PREFACE The Apparent Permanence of.
The Nineteenth-century Culture of Art Jonah Siegel. CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PREFACE The Apparent Permanence of the Museum as Against Its Actual Permanence : The Nineteenth - Century Culture of Art INTRODUCTION The Museum ...
... a Girl Playing upon a Spinet , 1799-1800 . Basel , Öffentliche Kunstsammlung . 20. Titian , Venus and the Organ Player , 1548. Madrid , Prado . 51 550 21. Fuseli , The Danish King Poisoned While He Sleeps LIST OF FIGURES LIST OF FIGURES.
... to Queries on the Galleries and Museums of Fine Arts in Different Countries . " Report from the Select Commit- tee on the National Gallery ( London , 1853 ) . 134 40. Edmund Oldfield , “ Plan for a Museum of viii LIST OF FIGURES.
... figure that so preoccupied the era that it was never able to arrive at a satisfactory explanation of its form . Almost every definition of the word " artist " offered by The Oxford English Dictionary is identified as obsolete , its ...
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 |