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Author:

Betzer, Sarah E., 1972- author.

Title:

Animating the antique : sculptural encounter in the age of aesthetic theory / Sarah Betzer.

Publisher:

The Pennsylvania State University Press,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

x, 258 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Subject:

Sculpture, Ancient--History--History--18th century.
Sculpture, Ancient--History--History--19th century.
Figure sculpture--History--History--18th century.
Figure sculpture--History--History--19th century.
Aesthetics, Modern--18th century.
Aesthetics, Modern--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-249) and index.

Contents:

Art history, aesthetics, and the body after archaeology -- Toward an eighteenth-century ontology of ancient sculpture -- Moving shadows -- From the ash to the fire -- In the round -- Photography, the rise of relief, and Nachleben.

Summary:

"Explores tensions in aesthetics and art theory between antique figural sculpture experienced in the round and its translation into two-dimensional representations. Examines the work and thought of Goethe, Winckelmann, Hegel, Walter Pater, Vernon Lee, and others"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0271088834
9780271088839

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1240415677

LCCN:

2021018168

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)