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Desire and excess: the nineteenth-century culture of art

Jonah Siegel
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Figures (page vii)
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • PREFACE (page xv)
  • INTRODUCTION The Museum as Mortuary (page 3)
  • PART ONE: ART IN THE MUSEUM: ARTIST AND FRAGMENT AT THE TURN OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (page 15)
    • CHAPTER ONE David and Fuseli: The Artist in the Museum, the Museum in the Work of Art (page 17)
    • CHAPTER TWO "Monuments of Pure Antiquity": The Challenge of the Object in Neoclassical Theory and Pedagogy (page 40)
    • CHAPTER THREE "United, Complete Knowledge": Barry, Blake, and the Search for the Artist (page 73)
  • PART TWO: THE AUTHOR AS WORK OF ART: ACCUMULATION, DISPLAY, AND DEATH IN LITERARY BIOGRAPHY (page 91)
    • CHAPTER FOUR Hazlitt, Scott, Lockhart: Intimacy, Anonymity, and Excess (page 93)
    • CHAPTER FIVE Keats: In the Library, in the Museum (page 130)
  • PART THREE: ABSENCE AND EXCESS: THE PRESENCE OF THE OBJECT (page 165)
    • CHAPTER SIX Outline, Collection, City: Hazlitt, Ruskin, and the Encounter with Art (page 167)
    • CHAPTER SEVEN Vast Knowledge/Narrow Space: The Stones of Venice (page 197)
  • PART FOUR: THE DEATHS OF THE CRITICS (page 225)
    • CHAPTER EIGHT Modernity as Resurrection in Pater and Wilde (page 227)
    • AFTERWORD Las Meninas as Cover: Foucault, Velazquez, and the Reflection of the Museum (page 263)
  • Notes (page 279)
  • Illustration Credits (page 337)
  • Index (page 339)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
MP 100.2 (Nov. 2002): 304-307 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1215745
AHR 106.3 (Jun. 2001): 938-939 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2692348
VLC 29.2 (2001): 521-534 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25058567
VLC 35.1 (2007): 345-359 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40347141
VS 49.2 (Winter 2007): 389-392 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4626324
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Published: c2000
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9781400849826 (ebook)
  • 9780691049144 (paper)
  • 9780691049137 (hardcover)
Series
  • ACLS Fellows’ Publications
Subject
  • Art History
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