Main entry:

Siegel, Jonah, 1963-

Title & Author:

Desire and excess : the nineteenth-century culture of art / Jonah Siegel.

Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2000.

Description:

xxvii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Princeton paperbacks

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

Summary:

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 both visual material and literary texts to portray a culture in which art came to be thought of in powerful new ways. Ultimately, Siegel shows that artistic controversies commonly associated with the self-consciously radical movements of modernism and postmodernism have their roots in a dynamic era unfairly characterized as staid, self-satisfied, and stable. Siegel presents a lively discussion of the shock experienced by neoclassical artists troubled by remains of antiquity that were trivial or even obscene, as well as the anxious aesthetic reveries of nineteenth-century art lovers overwhelmed by the quantity of objects quickly crowding museums and exhibition halls. In so doing, he illuminates the fruitful crises provoked when the longing for admired art is suddenly satisfied. Drawing upon neoclassical art and theory, biographies of early nineteenth-century writers including Keats and Scott, and the writings of art critics such as Hazlitt, Ruskin, and Wilde, this book reproduces a cultural matrix that brings to life the artistic passions and anxieties of an entire era.

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ISBN:

0691049130 (alk. paper)
9780691049137 (alk. paper)
0691049149 (pb ; alk. paper)
9780691049144 (pb ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Blake, William 1757-1827
David, Jacques Louis 1748-1825
Foucault, Michel 1926-1984
Füssli, Johann Heinrich 1741-1825
Hazlitt, William 1778-1830
Keats, John 1795-1821
Ruskin, John 1819-1900
Bornholms Kunstmuseum Gudhjem
Heimatmuseum der Gemeinde Gründau
Arts, Modern 19th century Historiography.
Art and literature History 19th century.
Artists History 19th century.
Arts 19e siècle Historiographie.
Art et littérature Histoire 19e siècle.
Artistes Histoire 19e siècle.
Art and literature.
Artists.
Arts, Modern Historiography.
Künstler
Kunst
Kunstbetrieb
Ästhetik
Literatur
Kunstmusea.
Kunstkritiek.
Institutionalisering.
Artists 19th century.
Art et littérature 19e siècle.
Englisch.

Form/genre:

History.

Host item:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Added entries:

Princeton paperbacks.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 216752
Call No.: NX454 .S5 2000
Status: Available

Location: Library main 216751
Call No.: NX454 .S5 2000
Status: Available