Desire and Excess : : The Nineteenth-Century Culture of Art / / Jonah Siegel.
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 bo...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 p.) :; 54 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF FIGURES
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- PREFACE. The Apparent Permanence of the Museum as Against Its Actual Permanence: The Nineteenth-Century Culture of Art
- Introduction. The Museum as Mortuary
- PART ONE: ART IN THE MUSEUM: ARTIST AND FRAGMENT AT THE TURN OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
- PART TWO: THE AUTHOR AS WORK OF ART ACCUMULATION, DISPLAY, AND DEATH IN LITERARY BIOGRAPHY
- PART THREE: ABSENCE AND EXCESS: THE PRESENCE OF THE OBJECT
- PART FOUR: THE DEATHS OF THE CRITICS
- AFTERWORD. LAS MENINAS AS COVER: FOUCAULT, VELAZQUEZ, AND THE REFLECTION OF THE MUSEUM
- NOTES
- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
- INDEX