Poetic Exhibitions: Romantic Aesthetics and the Pleasures of the British MuseumBucknell University Press, 2001 - 284 Seiten "Poetic Exhibitions seek both to enrich the study of modern museums with the insights of literary theory and to establish a more practical connection between Romanticism and its attendant ideologies. By reading the aesthetic reflections of such writers as Joseph Addison, William Hogarth, Edmund Burke, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge in relation to the exhibitionary plans and popular guidebooks for the early museum, Gidal demonstrates the connections between abstract theory and cultural politics. By reflecting upon the collections and excavations of Sir Hans Sloane, Lord Elgin, Charles Townley, and Austen Henry Layard in relation to their institutional acquisition, he explores the poetics of national incorporation. |
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... taste ; and also a pleasing one , because they are not the price of blood , shed in wanton or ambitious wars . United to the Townley and other collec- tions , the suite of rooms exhibits the finest display of the art of sculpture to be ...
... taste ; and also a pleasing one , because they are not the price of blood , shed in wanton or ambitious wars . United to the Townley and other collec- tions , the suite of rooms exhibits the finest display of the art of sculpture to be ...
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... taste to a true estimation of what is really valuable and dignified in art . ' That this hope will not be gratified , we suspect ; and one reason for our suspicion is the use that Mr. West has made of them . " 42 Considering the ...
... taste to a true estimation of what is really valuable and dignified in art . ' That this hope will not be gratified , we suspect ; and one reason for our suspicion is the use that Mr. West has made of them . " 42 Considering the ...
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... taste has improved , our manu- factures have advanced ; everything has shown , as clearly as possible , the connexion of the arts with everything that is civilised . " 32 But the civilizing function of a comprehen- sive view of cultural ...
... taste has improved , our manu- factures have advanced ; everything has shown , as clearly as possible , the connexion of the arts with everything that is civilised . " 32 But the civilizing function of a comprehen- sive view of cultural ...
Inhalt
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Pleasures of the British Museum | 21 |
A Romantic Art | 76 |
Urheberrecht | |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acquisition aesthetic antiquities art of memory artistic Austen Henry Layard Babel beauty Benjamin West British Museum burden Byron Cambridge century collection contemplation cultural curatorial curiosity desire discourse distinction Egypt Egyptian eighteenth eighteenth-century ekphrasis Elgin Marbles exhibition exhibitionary experience figures Gallery glory Grecian Greece Greek Guide Haydon Hemans Hereafter cited parenthetically Ibid ideal ideas identification identity ideological imaginative institution Jerome McGann Keats knowledge Layard logic London Lord Elgin M. H. Abrams mediation metaphor metonymy mind modern narrative national museum nature Nineveh novelty objects offers original Oxford Ozymandias painting Parthenon Parthenon Marbles perception pleasure poem poet poet's poetic poetry political portrait produced progress Pulsky recollection relation repository representation rhetorical Romantic Rossetti's ruins sculpture seductive seum Shelley Shelley's simultaneously Sir Hans Sloane Sloane's social sonnet spectator stanza sublime taste thetic tion tive Townley transformation University Press verbal vision visitors visual West's William Wordsworth Wordsworth