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. |
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... Blake , and the Search for the Artist Alternative Origins Joseph of Arimathea : Blake and the Work of Art The Laocoön : Stupendous Originals 73 76 80 PART TWO : THE AUTHOR AS WORK OF ART : ACCUMULATION , DISPLAY , AND DEATH IN LITERARY ...
... Blake , Laocoön as Jehovah with Satan and Adam , circa 1818. Cambridge , Fitzwilliam Museum . 34. William Blake , “ Sculpture , ” plate III . Abraham Rees , Cyclopedia ; or Universal Dictionary of Arts , Science , and Literature ...
... Blake , Hazlitt , or Ruskin — could not avoid constant recurrence , both broad and specific , to the fine arts , it is because the world in which they came to understand their own ambition and relation to culture was committedly and ...
... Blake alongside such apparently distinct cultural developments as Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery and the growing dissemination of knowledge of antique art in casts and prints , I demonstrate that among the most long - lived strategies ...
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Contents
3 | |
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 |