Scapeland : : writing the landscape from Diderot's Salons to the postmodern museum / / Gillian B. Pierce.

Scapeland: Writing the Landscape from Diderot’s Salons to the Postmodern Museum is a comparative, interdisciplinary study tracing theories of the sublime and a history of spectatorship from Diderot’s eighteenth-century French Salons , through art criticism by Baudelaire and Breton, to Jean-François...

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Superior document:Faux titre ; 383
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, 2012.
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Faux Titre 383.
Physical Description:1 online resource (237 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Landscape and the Sublime, or The Art of Nature
  • Les Limites de l’imitation: Diderot and the Salons
  • Baudelaire’s Parisian Cityscape: Charles Meryon and Le Spleen de Paris
  • Mapping the City as Dreamscape: André Breton and le point sublime
  • “Scapeland”: The Sublime and Lyotard’s Les Immatériaux
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography.