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.The nineteenth century has been called the Age of the Museum, and yet critics, art theorists, and poets during this period grappled with the question of whether the proliferation of museums might lead to the death of Art itself. Did the assembly and display of works of art help the viewer to understand them or did it numb the senses? How was the contemporary artist to respond to the vast storehouses of art from disparate nations and periods that came to proliferate in this era?Siegel presents a lively discussion of the shock experienced by neoclassical artists troubled by remains of antiquity that were trivial or even obscene, as well as the anxious aesthetic reveries of nineteenth-century art lovers overwhelmed by the quantity of objects quickly crowding museums and exhibition halls. In so doing, he illuminates the fruitful crises provoked when the longing for admired art is suddenly satisfied. Drawing upon neoclassical art and theory, biographies of early nineteenth-century writers including Keats and Scott, and the writings of art critics such as Hazlitt, Ruskin, and Wilde, this book reproduces a cultural matrix that brings to life the artistic passions and anxieties of an entire era.
The book, which contains 50 illustrations, makes a coherent and important contribution to a subject of great current interest to classicists of all disciplines.
This book considers melancholy as an "assemblage," as a network of dynamic, interpretive relationships between persons, bodies, texts, spaces, structures, and things. In doing so, it parts ways with ...past interpretations of melancholy. Tilting the English Renaissance against the present moment, Daniel argues that the basic disciplinary tension between medicine and philosophy persists within contemporary debates about emotional embodiment.To make this case, the book binds together the paintings of Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver, the drama of Shakespeare, the prose of Burton, and the poetry of Milton. Crossing borders and periods, Daniel combines recent theories which have--until now--been regarded as incongruous by their respective advocates.Asking fundamental questions about how the experience of emotion produces community, the book will be of interest to scholars of early modern literature, psychoanalysis, the affective turn, and continental philosophy.
Exploring the significance of visual things that are 'under construction' in works by playwrights. Illustrated with examples, it opens up new interpretations of the place of aesthetic form in the ...early modern imagination. Why are early modern English dramatists preoccupied with unfinished processes of ‘making’ and ‘unmaking’? And what did ‘finished’ or ‘incomplete’ mean for spectators of plays and visual works in this period? Making and unmaking in early modern English drama is about the prevalence and significance of visual things that are ‘under construction’ in early modern plays. Contributing to challenges to the well-worn narrative of ‘iconophobic’ early modern English culture, it explores the drama as a part of a lively post-Reformation visual world. Interrogating the centrality of concepts of ‘fragmentation’ and ‘wholeness’ in critical approaches to this period, it opens up new interpretations of the place of aesthetic form in early modern culture.
`Building Science Graphics' guides scientists and science communicators on how their communication of science knowledge can benefit from the visual aid of science graphics. This can be an ...intimidating task to someone unfamiliar with visual design, but the book demystifies this entire process, giving a simple and straightforward account of a complex topic.
This book seeks to work out literature's active role in shaping visual culture, thus demonstrating its relevance for "image studies" and emphasizing its participation in visual culture beyond its ...interaction with visual media. The essays focus on description, reader response and the materiality of literature. The aim of this volume is to offer a systematic approach to these issues as well as to contribute to a literary history of visual culture.
In Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing eminent Rossetti scholar Lorraine Janzen Kooistra demonstrates the cultural centrality of a neglected artifact: the Victorian illustrated gift book. ...Turning a critical lens on "drawing-room books" as both material objects and historical events, Kooistra reveals how the gift book's visual/verbal form mediated "high" and popular art as well as book and periodical publication. A composite text produced by many makers, the poetic gift book was designed for domestic space and a female audience; its mode of publication marks a significant moment in the history of authorship, reading, and publishing. With rigorous attention to the gift book's aesthetic and ideological features, Kooistra analyzes the contributions of poets, artists, engravers, publishers, and readers and shows how its material form moved poetry into popular culture. Drawing on archival and periodical research, she offers new readings of Eliza Cook, Adelaide Procter, and Jean Ingelow and shows the transatlantic reach of their verses. Boldly resituating Tennyson's works within the gift-book economy he dominated, Kooistra demonstrates how the conditions of corporate authorship shaped the production and receptionof the laureate's verses at the peak of his popularity. Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing changes the map of poetry's place—in all its senses—in Victorian everyday life and consumer culture.
The Birth and Development of the Idealized Concept of Arcadia
in the Ancient World for the first time brings together all
the available evidence for this topic, from the Homeric period to
the early ...Roman Empire, in one place. The evidence is both literary
and visual and is considered in a chronological sequence. Thus the
reader can follow the blossoming of the Arcadian dream through
eight centuries. The ideological, political and philosophical
background that forms the basis of this phenomenon is also
outlined, and the contributions of poets, historians, philosophers,
antiquarians, architects, sculptors and painters are duly
considered. The book brings to light a treasure-trove of evidence,
both well-known and obscure or fragmentary, filling a significant
gap in the scholarly bibliography.
Der Band bietet die Briefe von und an Friedrich und Dorothea Schlegel aus den Anfangsjahren der europäischen Nationenbildung. Im Zentrum steht die publizistische Tätigkeit Friedrich Schlegels und ...sein Interesse an der Literaturgeschichte. Daneben beschäftigte er sich mit der Kunstgeschichte und stand in Kontakt mit ausübenden Künstlern wie den Nazarenern in Rom. In diese Zeit fallen auch politische Arbeiten und die fortdauernde Suche nach einer passenden Anstellung. Schlegel bemüht sich sowohl publizistisch, durch sein Engagement gegen Napoleon und für den Vatikan, als auch durch seine Vorlesungen in Wien Anschluss zu finden. Dorotheas Briefe sind geprägt von den Wirren und Sorgen der Napoleonischen Kriege. Sie unterstützt ihren Mann bei seinen publizistischen Tätigkeiten.
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