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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... Buildings ( London , 1828 ) . 6. Jacques - Louis David , Oath of the Horatii , 1785. Paris , Louvre . 7. Jacques - Louis David , Tennis Court Oath , 1791. Versailles . 8. Jacques - Louis David , Sketch for Tennis Court Oath , circa 1790 ...
... at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is apparently intact , but is kept in a building separate from the main museum , an unglamorous shed generally kept locked and reached through Fig . 1. Casts of Roman Sculpture , Art Institute PRE FACE ...
... building designed in the nineteenth century - no doubt with the housing of these now - banished objects as one of its aims . The Victoria and Albert Museum keeps its reproductions of famous works alongside its exhibition of counterfeits ...
... building is permanent enough to outlive its particular contents . Such a possibility not only surrounds the aesthetic objects we are currently able to appreciate with a nimbus of uncertainty ; it also suggests be less than clear on the ...
... engagement with the fine arts , in large part because the widespread acceptance of the importance of this sort of engagement and the possibility of its satisfaction were both developments of this era ( building largely on xxiv PREFACE.
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 |