Includes bibliographical references (p. 232-248) and index.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: The Aesthetic Life: Conditions of Interdisciplinarity--E.Clements &--L.Higgins -- PART I: PATER AND CONTEMPORARY VISUALITIES -- Art and the Museum--J.Siegel -- Pater and Contemporary Visual Art--B.Bullen -- The Necessity of Corot and Whistler in Paters Network of Painters--L.Higgins -- Critical Connections and Quotational Strategies: Allegory and Aestheticism in Pater and Simeon Solomon--C.Cruise -- PART II: PATER AND THE DYNAMIC ARTS -- Paters Auxerre Tapestry--K.Daley -- Sculpture, Style and Paters Imaginative Sense of Touch--L.stermark-Johansen -- The Painting as Physical Object in a Verbal Portrait: Paters A Prince of Court Painters and Wildes The Portrait of Mr. W. H.--N.Kelvin -- Walter Pater, Film Theorist--C.Williams -- Paters Musical Imagination: The Aural Architecture of The School of Giorgione and Marius the Epicurean--E.Clements -- Haunted Stages: Walter Pater and the Theatrical Mode of Life--A.Eastham -- PART III: PATER AND THE PRACTICE OF WRITING -- Paters Politics--M.Potolsky -- The Spirit on its Way to Perfection?: Paterian Self-Culture and Friedrich Schillers Aesthetic Education--K.Hext -- The Art of the Novel: Pater and Fiction--L.Brake -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary:
"The multidisciplinary aesthetics of Walter Pater, the nineteenth century's most provocative critic, are explored by an international team of scholars. True aesthetic criticism takes place working across the arts, Pater insists: acknowledging the differences between media, but seeking possibilities of interconnection"-- Provided by publisher.
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