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The Frame of Art: Fictions of Aesthetic Experience, 1750–1815
David Marshall
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Description for The Frame of Art: Fictions of Aesthetic Experience, 1750–1815
Hardback. Marshall asks what it means for these authors to view the world through the frame of art. Series: Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society. Num Pages: 272 pages, 4, 4 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 504.
Aesthetic experience was problematic for Enlightenment authors. Arguing against the commonly held view that aesthetics in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was defined by the professionalization of criticism and the disinterested contemplation and evaluation of the work of art in isolation, David Marshall seeks to understand how and why aesthetic experience in fact often generated tremendous emotion and tension. Focusing on stories about art told in literary, critical, and philosophical writings, in which art is represented as both powerful and disconcerting, he demonstrates how an aesthetic perspective blurs the boundaries between art and reality rather than separating them. Lucid ... Read more
Aesthetic experience was problematic for Enlightenment authors. Arguing against the commonly held view that aesthetics in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was defined by the professionalization of criticism and the disinterested contemplation and evaluation of the work of art in isolation, David Marshall seeks to understand how and why aesthetic experience in fact often generated tremendous emotion and tension. Focusing on stories about art told in literary, critical, and philosophical writings, in which art is represented as both powerful and disconcerting, he demonstrates how an aesthetic perspective blurs the boundaries between art and reality rather than separating them. Lucid ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801882333
SKU
V9780801882333
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About David Marshall
David Marshall is a professor of English and Comparative Literature and Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Reviews for The Frame of Art: Fictions of Aesthetic Experience, 1750–1815
This is a beautifully written and beautifully argued book... I come away from it with a new perception.
Cynthia Wall Studies in English Literature 2006 Marshall demonstrates an enviable facility with the English, French, and German canon, and at points produces close readings of difficult texts that are nothing short of tour de force.
Richard Kroll Eighteenth-Century Fiction ... Read more
Cynthia Wall Studies in English Literature 2006 Marshall demonstrates an enviable facility with the English, French, and German canon, and at points produces close readings of difficult texts that are nothing short of tour de force.
Richard Kroll Eighteenth-Century Fiction ... Read more