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Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Report from the Select Committee on the National Gallery
Author: Report
Author: Commonwealth Shipping CommitteePublisher:
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Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 834
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Reports from Committees
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 636
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Supplementary Catalogue of the Books Added to the Parliamentary Library
Author: Parliamentary Library of South AustraliaPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 154
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The Sale Catalogues of British Government Publications, 1836-1921
Author: Great Britain. Her Majesty's Stationery OfficePublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
Desire and Excess
Author: Jonah SiegelPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400849829
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
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. The nineteenth century has been called the Age of the Museum, and yet critics, art theorists, and poets during this period grappled with the question of whether the proliferation of museums might lead to the death of Art itself. Did the assembly and display of works of art help the viewer to understand them or did it numb the senses? How was the contemporary artist to respond to the vast storehouses of art from disparate nations and periods that came to proliferate in this era? 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.
Reports from Commissioners
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of LordsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Minutes of Proceedings
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of LordsPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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Bibliotheca Lindesiana ...
Author: James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of CrawfordPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1302
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Tables and Indexes
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of LordsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 216
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