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Author Siegel, Jonah, 1963- author.

Title Desire and excess : the nineteenth-century culture of art / Jonah Siegel
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xxvii, 352 pages) : illustrations
Series Princeton paperbacks
Princeton paperbacks.
ACLS Fellows' publications
Contents Preface: The Apparent Permanence of the Museum as Against Its Actual Permanence: The Nineteenth-Century Culture of Art -- Introduction: The Museum as Mortuary -- pt. 1. Art in the Museum: Artist and Fragment at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century. Ch. 1. David and Fuseli: The Artist in the Museum, the Museum in the Work of Art. Ch. 2. "Monuments of Pure Antiquity": The Challenge of the Object in Neoclassical Theory and Pedagogy. Ch. 3. "United, Completer Knowledge": Barry, Blake, and the Search for the Artist -- pt. 2. The Author as Work of Art: Accumulation, Display, and Death in Literary Biography. Ch. 4. Hazlitt, Scott, Lockhart: Intimacy, Anonymity, and Excess. Ch. 5. Keats: In the Library, in the Museum -- pt. 3. Absence and Excess: The Presence of the Object. Ch. 6. Outline, Collection, City: Hazlitt, Ruskin, and the Encounter with Art. Ch. 7. Vast Knowledge/Narrow Space: The Stones of Venice -- pt. 4. The Deaths of the Critics. Ch. 8. Modernity as Resurrection in Pater and Wilde -- Afterword: Las Meninas as Cover: Foucault, Velazquez, and the Reflection of the Museum
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-335) and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ACLS Humanities, viewed September 25, 2014)
SUBJECT Blake, William 1757-1827 gnd
David, Jacques Louis 1748-1825 gnd
Foucault, Michel 1926-1984 gnd
Füssli, Johann Heinrich 1741-1825 gnd
Hazlitt, William 1778-1830 gnd
Keats, John 1795-1821 gnd
Ruskin, John 1819-1900 gnd
Bornholms Kunstmuseum Gudhjem gnd
Heimatmuseum der Gemeinde Gründau gnd
Subject Arts, Modern -- 19th century -- Historiography
Art and literature -- History -- 19th century
Artists -- History -- 19th century
Art -- history
ART / History / General
Art and literature
Artists
Arts, Modern -- Historiography
Künstler
Kunst
Kunstbetrieb
Ästhetik
Literatur
Kunstmusea.
Kunstkritiek.
Institutionalisering.
Arts -- 19e siècle -- Historiographie.
Artistes -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.
Art et littérature -- 19e siècle.
Englisch.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 00020897
ISBN 0691049149
9780691049144
9781400849826
1400849829
Other Titles Desire & excess
Nineteenth-century culture of art
19th-century culture of art