Collecting and appreciating Henry James and the transformation of aesthetics in the age of consumption /

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Main Author: Francescato, Simone, 1973-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, 2010.
Series:Cultural interactions ; v. 21.
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245 1 0 |a Collecting and appreciating  |h [electronic resource] :  |b Henry James and the transformation of aesthetics in the age of consumption /  |c Simone Francescato. 
260 |a New York :  |b Peter Lang,  |c 2010. 
300 |a vi, 209 p. 
490 1 |a Cultural interactions : studies in the relationship between the arts,  |x 1662-0364 ;  |v v. 21 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-205) and index. 
505 0 |a Appreciation in the age of consumption. The rise of consumption as an aesthetic revolution; Collecting as a modern form of art appreciation; The problem of art consumption for John Ruskin -- Henry James's early response to collecting. Henry James and the Ruskinian picturesque; Picturesque relics vs. renovated collectibles -- Between aestheticism and naturalism. The aesthete and the naturalist as cultural commodifiers; The impossible painting and the ugly statuettes -- The princess Casamassima. Unmasking the naturalist collector: Zola, Turgenev and James; A youth upon whom nothing was lost; The last sacrifice; The extending of one's horizon -- Henry James's aesthetics of desire. Georg Simmel's "value-increasing process"; The ambiguities of a fin-de-siecle connoisseur: Bernard Berenson; The most exquisite economy: Henry James's aesthetics of desire; Appreciation and interpretation -- The spoils of Poynton. The buried bone and the tiny nuggets; A hindrance in the quality of the material; The method at the heart of madness -- The golden bowl. Rounding off the corners of life; Small shining diamonds out of the sweepings of an ordered house; The steel hoop and the silken rope. 
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