Animating the antique : sculptural encounter in the age of aesthetic theory

Author:

Betzer, Sarah E., 1972-

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2021] and ©2021

Subject:

Sculpture, Ancient - Appreciation - History - 18th century
Sculpture, Ancient - Appreciation - History - 19th century
Figure sculpture - Appreciation - History - 18th century
Figure sculpture - Appreciation - History - 19th century
Aesthetics, Modern - 18th century
Aesthetics, Modern - 19th century

ISBN:

9780271088839 and 0271088834

Description:

x, 258 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-249) and index

Contents:

Art history, aesthetics, and the body after archaeology -- Toward an eighteenth-century ontology of ancient sculpture -- Moving shadows -- From the ash to the fire -- In the round -- Photography, the rise of relief, and Nachleben

Summary:

"Explores tensions in aesthetics and art theory between antique figural sculpture experienced in the round and its translation into two-dimensional representations. Examines the work and thought of Goethe, Winckelmann, Hegel, Walter Pater, Vernon Lee, and others"-- Provided by publisher

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

NB70 .B48 2021

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