Author: Brad Evans
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2019-09-10
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1421432692
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Bringing nineteenth-century American literature and culture into conversation with modern art movements from around the world, Ephemeral Bibelots provides new ways of thinking about the centrality of various media cultures to the attribution of aesthetic innovation and its staying power.
Author: Janell Watson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-01-13
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 113942663X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book addresses the issues of collecting, consuming, classifying and describing the curiosities, antiques and objets d'art that proliferated in French literary texts during the last decades of the nineteenth century. After Balzac made such issues significant in canonical literature, the Goncourt brothers, Huysmans, Mallarmé and Maupassant celebrated their golden age. Flaubert and Zola scorned them. Rachilde and Lorrain perverted them. Proust commemorated their last moments of glory. Focusing on the bibelot (the modern French term for knick-knack, curiosity or other collectible), Janell Watson shows how the sudden prominence given to curiosities and collecting in nineteenth-century literature signals a massive change in attitudes to the world of goods, which in turn restructured the literary text according to the practical logic of daily life, calling into question established scholarly notions of order. Her study makes an important contribution to the literary history of material culture.
Author: Briton Hadden
Publisher:
Published: 1926
Total Pages: 1096
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reels for 1973- include Time index, 1973-
Author: Francis Fisher Browne
Publisher:
Published: 1914
Total Pages: 1068
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Rémy Gilbert Saisselin
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Examines how art was changed from aesthetic experience to consumer commodity during the nineteenth century, and discusses the changing social role of art