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

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主要作者: Francescato, Simone, 1973-
企业作者: ebrary, Inc
格式: 电子 电子书
语言:英语
出版: New York : Peter Lang, 2010.
丛编:Cultural interactions ; v. 21.
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书本目录:
  • 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.