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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... simple and broad definition given , is followed by instances almost every one of which is identified as having been lost to current usage : “ One skilled in the “ liberal or learned arts ” " One skilled in the useful arts " “ One who ...
... taste in our own day have proved difficult to trace in large part because of the methodological challenge of engaging past aesthetic values . The instances I cite represent simple shifts in taste for which PREFACE XXV.
The Nineteenth-Century Culture of Art Jonah Siegel. instances I cite represent simple shifts in taste for which it is easy to correct ; what is a challenge for the student of the nineteenth century is to recuperate something of the ...
... simple result of development away from a stable and straightforward earlier model , I will cite two museums of significance . One imaginary and the other concrete and still in existence , both structures capture some of the more ...
... simple adjective he expresses at the opening of his treatment of the topic serves a similar purpose : “ The german word , “ museal ( museumlike ) , has unpleasant overtones . It describes objects to which the observer no longer has a ...
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 |