Desire and Excess: The Nineteenth-Century Culture of ArtPrinceton University Press, 2021 M05 11 - 328 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. |
Contents
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CHAPTER | 17 |
CHAPTER | 40 |
CHAPTER THREE | 73 |
THE AUTHOR AS WORK OF ART | 91 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 130 |
CHAPTER | 167 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 197 |
CHAPTER EIGHT | 227 |
AFTERWORD | 263 |
NOTES | 279 |
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS | 337 |