In the Mind's Eye : : The Visual Impulse in Diderot, Baudelaire and Ruskin / / Alexandra K. Wettlaufer.
This comparative, interdisciplinary study investigates the relationship between literature and the visual arts in France and Britain from 1750-1900. Through a close examination of the prose writings of Diderot, Baudelaire and Ruskin, read against the background of contemporary philosophy, aesthetics...
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2003. |
Year of Publication: | 2003 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Faux Titre ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (310 pages) |
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Other title: | The Visual Impulse in Diderot, Baudelaire and Ruskin |
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Summary: | This comparative, interdisciplinary study investigates the relationship between literature and the visual arts in France and Britain from 1750-1900. Through a close examination of the prose writings of Diderot, Baudelaire and Ruskin, read against the background of contemporary philosophy, aesthetics and theories of language, In the Mind's Eye proposes a new interpretation of the influence and rivalries underlying the development of art criticism as a genre during this period. The visual impulse - the desire to transcend the limitations of language and make the reader see - is located within the historical traditions of ekphrasis, enargeia and the paragone , while in each chapter, the individual author's theories of the mind, memory and imagination provide a critical framework for his stylistic experiments. In the Mind's Eye presents an in-depth analysis of the cultural, theoretical and aesthetic implications of artistic border crossings, and by contextualizing the movement toward visual/verbal hybridity in the fiction and criticism of Diderot, Baudelaire and Ruskin, brings new perspectives to nineteenth-century studies in art and literature. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9789004489851 9789042010352 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Alexandra K. Wettlaufer. |