{"product_id":"desire-and-excess-the-nineteenthcentury-culture-of-art-9780691049144","title":"Desire and Excess  The NineteenthCentury Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOffering a look at the creative power of institutions, this book explores the rise of the modern idea of the artist in the 19th century, a period that also witnessed the emergence of the museum and the professional critic. Drawing upon neoclassical art and theory, it aims to bring to life the artistic passions and anxieties of an entire era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Desire and Excess is rich in ... luminous insights, [and is] beautifully expressed... The strength of [Siegal's book] lies in how vividly [it] evoke[s] a visual life for nineteenth-century Britons that makes us feel as if we see what they saw.\"--Gillen D'Arcy Wood, The Wordsworth Circle \"This is an extensive and ambitious study... Siegel's book is the product of many years of thought and research... [T]he central argument is compelling. The artists and critics of the nineteenth century are not, as they are sometimes thought to be, of one mind about the nature and role of art, and of the museums that house collections of art. The questions that worried them are complex and testing, and they are still unresolved.\"--Dinah Birch, Times Literary Supplement \"[A] subtly argued, richly textured, and gracefully written study of the interwoven histories of the figure of the artist and museum culture in the nineteenth-century Britain.\"--Hilary Fraser, Nineteenth-Century Literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIST OF FIGURES vii  ACKNOWLEDGMENT xi  PREFACE: The Apparent Permanence of the Museum as Against Its Actual Permanence: The Nineteenth-Century Culture of Art xv  INTRODUCTION: The Museum as Mortuary 3  PART ONE: ART IN THE MUSEUM: ARTIST AND FRAGMENT AT THE TURN OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 15  CHAPTER ONE: David and Fuseli: The Artist in the Museum, the Museum in tHe Work of Art 17  David: The Oaths 18  Fuseli: Before Ruins 28  CHAPTER TWO: \"Monuments of Pure Antiquity\": The Challenge of the Object in Neoclassical Theory and Pedagogy 40  The Statue and the Penis 47  The Penis and the Statue 64  CHAPTER THREE: \"United, Completer Knowledge\": Barry, Blake, and the Search for the Artist 73  Alternative Origins 73  Yoseph of Arimathea: Blake and the Work of Art 76  The Laocoun: Stupendous Originals 80  PART TWO: THE AUTHOR AS WORK OF ART: ACCUMULATION, DISPLAY, AND DEATH IN LITERARY BIOGRAPHY 91  CHAPTER FOUR: Hazlitt, Scott, Lockhart: Intimacy, Anonymity, and Excess 93  \"That Which is Unseen \": The Life of Genius 93  Talking in a Tempest: Hazlitt on Contemporary Life 102  A Writing Hand: The Life of Scott 113  CHAPTER FIVE: Keats: In the Library, in the Museum 130  The Museum: Accommodating Art. 133  \"A Perfect Treasure House\": The Museum of the Mind 150  PART THREE: ABSENCE AND EXCESS: THE PRESENCE OF THE OBJECT 165  CHAPTER SIX: Outline, Collection, City: Hazlitt, Ruskin, and the Encounter with Art 167  \"Asking for the Old Pictures\": Hazlitt's Dream of the Louvre 168  Ruskin in the Presence of Art: Art, Treasure, Exhihition 180  Learned Outlines: Hazlitt and Ruskin on Flaxman 189  CHAPTER SEVEN: Vast Knowledge\/Narrow Space: The Stones of Venice 197  Travel and Organization 197  The Natures of Gothic 209  PART FOUR: THE DEATHS OF THE CRITICS 225  CHAPTER EIGHT: Modernity as Resurrection in Pater and Wilde 227  Filling in the Outline, or \"What Is Really New\" 227  \"A Pomegranate Cut with a Knife of Ivory\" 251  AFTERWORD: Las Meninas as Cover: Foucault, Velazquez, and the Reflection of the Museum 263  NOTES 279  ILLUSTRATION CREDITS 337  INDEX 339","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403701428567,"sku":"9780691049144","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691049144.jpg?v=1730484290","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/desire-and-excess-the-nineteenthcentury-culture-of-art-9780691049144","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}