Collecting and appreciating Henry James and the transformation of aesthetics in the age of consumption /
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| Format: | Elektronički e-knjiga |
| Jezik: | engleski |
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New York :
Peter Lang,
2010.
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| Serija: | Cultural interactions ;
v. 21. |
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| Online pristup: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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- 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.