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Antiquity, Theatre, and the Painting of Henry Fuseli by Andrei Pop: New
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- Condition
- Book Title
- Antiquity, Theatre, and the Painting of Henry Fuseli
- Publication Date
- 2015-01-29
- ISBN
- 9780198709275
- Subject Area
- Literary Criticism, Art, Philosophy, History
- Publication Name
- Antiquity, Theatre, and the Painting of Henry Fuseli
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Subject
- Modern / 18th Century, Drama, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, History / General
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Series
- Classical Presences Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Item Weight
- 21.2 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0198709277
ISBN-13
9780198709275
eBay Product ID (ePID)
209762003
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Publication Name
Antiquity, Theatre, and the Painting of Henry Fuseli
Language
English
Subject
Modern / 18th Century, Drama, History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, History / General
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Art, Philosophy, History
Series
Classical Presences Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
21.2 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2014-947485
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Pop's book offers powerful new readings of several of Fuseli's most important paintings and also makes a significant contribution to the intellectual history of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries." --Stephanie O'Rourke, Oxford Art Journal "Pop's intervention is deeply informed and highly original, rewriting the received history of neoclassicism. Fuseli emerges as a complex artistic, moral, and political character who engaged the question of the 'ends' of tolerance and sympathy in a liberal society while at the same time acknowledging the unpleasant, messy, vulgar, and indeed terrifying and traumatic configuration of its 'neopagan' classical past. Pop masterfully weaves the complicated story of a fraught dialogue between neoclassic and neopagan claims and fantasies. The book is not only an essential resource for a subtle interpretation of the materials of its period but also a masterclass in art-writing." --Whitney Davis, Pardee Professor of History and Theory of Ancient and Modern Art, University of California, Berkeley "In a tour de force of scrupulous research and glittering insight, Pop persuades us that Fuseli's art did not fail to exemplify virtue, it ventured a new kind of history painting. Inspired by newly discovered remnants of pagan culture, by growing knowledge of cultures around the globe and by contemporary ideas of liberal humanism, Fuseli reformulated the relations of the classical and the modern in works of art which raise the spectre of the relativity of morals. More than a new account of Fuseli, this book is a readerly adventure in the history of art, and in the political and philosophical ideas underpinning current debates in social thought and visual culture." --Karen Lang, Associate Professor, History of Art, University of Warwick, Pop's intervention is deeply informed and highly original, rewriting the received history of neoclassicism. Fuseli emerges as a complex artistic, moral, and political character who engaged the question of the 'ends' of tolerance and sympathy in a liberal society while at the same time acknowledging the unpleasant, messy, vulgar, and indeed terrifying and traumatic configuration of its 'neopagan' classical past. Pop masterfully weaves the complicated story of afraught dialogue between neoclassic and neopagan claims and fantasies. The book is not only an essential resource for a subtle interpretation of the materials of its period but also a masterclass in art-writing., "Pop's book offers powerful new readings of several of Fuseli's most important paintings and also makes a significant contribution to the intellectual history of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries." --Stephanie O'Rourke, Oxford Art Journal"Pop's intervention is deeply informed and highly original, rewriting the received history of neoclassicism. Fuseli emerges as a complex artistic, moral, and political character who engaged the question of the 'ends' of tolerance and sympathy in a liberal society while at the same time acknowledging the unpleasant, messy, vulgar, and indeed terrifying and traumatic configuration of its 'neopagan' classical past. Pop masterfully weaves the complicated story of a fraught dialogue between neoclassic and neopagan claims and fantasies. The book is not only an essential resource for a subtle interpretation of the materials of its period but also a masterclass in art-writing." --Whitney Davis, Pardee Professor of History and Theory of Ancient and Modern Art, University of California, Berkeley"In a tour de force of scrupulous research and glittering insight, Pop persuades us that Fuseli's art did not fail to exemplify virtue, it ventured a new kind of history painting. Inspired by newly discovered remnants of pagan culture, by growing knowledge of cultures around the globe and by contemporary ideas of liberal humanism, Fuseli reformulated the relations of the classical and the modern in works of art which raise the spectre of the relativity of morals. More than a new account of Fuseli, this book is a readerly adventure in the history of art, and in the political and philosophical ideas underpinning current debates in social thought and visual culture." --Karen Lang, Associate Professor, History of Art, University of Warwick
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
700.943
Table Of Content
Introduction: Classicism and its Discontents1. Tragedy, the Cultural Relativism of Henry Fuseli2. Grave Monuments, Writing, and the Antique Present3. Comedy, Dreaming, and the Sympathetic Spectator4. Winckelmann's Fake and Activist Neoclassicism5. The Satyr Play, or Naturalizing Human Nature6. Ordinary AntiquityConclusionAppendix I: Fuseli and HerderAppendix II: Fuseli and HomerBibliographyIndex
Synopsis
The rediscovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the eighteenth century challenged European assumptions about ancient life; just as influential, if quieter, was the revolution caused by translations of Greek tragedy. Art of the mid-eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries dealt with the violence and seeming irrationality of tragic action as an account of the rituals and beliefs of a foreign culture, worshipping strange gods and enacting unfamiliar customs. The result was a focus on the radical difference of the past which, however, was thought to still have something to teach us: not how to live better, but that we live differently and should allow others to do so as well. In recognizing tragedy as an alien cultural form, modern Europe recognized its own historical status as one culture among many. Naturally, this insight was resisted. Greek tragedy was seldom performed. In painting, it lived a shadow existence alongside more didactic subject matter, emerging explicitly only in a corpus of wash drawings by Anglo-Swiss artist Henry Fuseli (1741-1825), and an international circle of artists active in Rome in the 1770s. In this volume, Pop examines Fuseli as exemplary of a pluralist classicism, paying especial attention to his experiments with moral and aesthetic conventions in the more private medium of drawing. He analyses this broad view of culture through the lens of Fuseli's life and work; his remarkable acquaintances Emma Hamilton, Erasmus Darwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft, and the great theorists of art and morals to whom he responded, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, and David Hume, play prominent roles in this investigation of how antiquity became modern., In this volume, Pop examines how art of the mid 1700s and early 1800s - inspired by translations of Greek tragedy - reveals a view of modern Europe attempting to recognize its own historical status as one culture among many. He analyses this broad view of culture through the lens of Anglo-Swiss artist Henry Fuseli's life and work.
LC Classification Number
ND853
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