| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 260 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Aesthetic Life: Conditions of Interdisciplinarity /E. Clements & L. Higgins -- Art and the Museum / J. Siegel -- Pater and Contemporary Visual Art / B. Bullen -- The Necessity of Corot and Whistler in Paters Network of Painters / L. Higgins -- Critical Connections and Quotational Strategies: Allegory and Aestheticism in Pater and Simeon Solomon / C. Cruise -- Paters Auxerre Tapestry / K. Daley -- Sculpture, Style and Paters Imaginative Sense of Touch / L.stermark-Johansen -- The Painting as Physical Object in a Verbal Portrait: Paters A Prince of Court Painters and Wildes The Portrait of Mr. W.H. / N. Kelvin -- Walter Pater, Film Theorist / C. Williams -- Paters Musical Imagination: The Aural Architecture of The School of Giorgione and Marius the Epicurean / E. Clements -- Haunted Stages: Walter Pater and the Theatrical Mode of Life / A. Eastham -- Paters Politics / M. Potolsky -- The Spirit on its Way to Perfection?: Paterian Self-Culture and Friedrich Schillers Aesthetic Education / K. Hext -- The Art of the Novel: Pater and Fiction / L. Brake |
| Summary |
For Walter Pater, 'true aesthetic criticism' takes place when one is working across the arts, acknowledging differences of media and defining their 'limitations', but always seeking possibilities of interconnection. Only in this way can the arts and aesthetic criticism 'lend each other new forces'. This collection of thirteen essays by a team of international scholars vividly demonstrates the interartistic reach and continuing significance of his writings. Part I concentrates specifically on nineteenth-century painting and Victorian museum theory. Part II explores the dynamic arts, both traditional (sculpture, music, drama) and contemporary (photography and cinema). Part III investigates Pater's theory and practices of writing aesthetic discourse. Throughout, the argument is made that for Pater, critique is enabled in the act of transgressing both artistic and sensory boundaries |
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"The multidisciplinary aesthetics of Walter Pater, the nineteenth century's most provocative critic, are explored by an international team of scholars. True aesthetic criticism takes place working across the arts, Pater insists: acknowledging the differences between media, but seeking possibilities of interconnection"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Pater, Walter, 1839-1894 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Pater, Walter, 1839-1894 -- Aesthetics
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| SUBJECT |
Pater, Walter, 1839-1894 fast |
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Criticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
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Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 -- English.
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Literature.
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Aesthetics
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Criticism
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Clements, Elicia, 1970-
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Higgins, Lesley, 1955-
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| ISBN |
9780230281431 |
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0230281435 |
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