Hawthorne Sculpture And The Question Of American Art

Author : Deanna Fernie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351931540

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Hawthorne, Sculpture, and the Question of American Art by Deanna Fernie Pdf

Deanna Fernie analyzes the significance of sculpture in Hawthorne's fiction through the recurring motif of the fragment in its double guise as ruin and project. Her book casts new light on Hawthorne's memorable ruined and unfinished images, from the rough-hewn figurehead of 'Drowne's Wooden Image' (1844) to the tattered letter 'A' in the unfinished loft of the Custom House in The Scarlet Letter (1850) and the unfinished bust of Donatello in The Marble Faun (1860). Fernie shows how the tension between the formed and unformed enabled Hawthorne to interrogate the origins and the distinctive possibilities of art in America in relation to established European models. At the same time, she suggests that sculpture challenged and provoked Hawthorne's shaping of his own specifically literary art, stimulating him to develop its capacities for expressing irresolution and change. Fernie establishes the intellectual contexts for her study through a discussion of sculpture and fragmentary form as revealed in American, British, and Continental thought. Her book will be an important text not only for American literature scholars but also for anyone interested in British and Continental Romanticism and the intersections of art and literature.

Author : Maria de Fátima Silva,David Bouvier,Maria das Graças Augusto
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527559073

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A Special Model of Classical Reception by Maria de Fátima Silva,David Bouvier,Maria das Graças Augusto Pdf

The contributions to this volume cover a large diachronic, geographical, and cultural space. Some of the texts go back to antiquity, using the Odyssey as the most significant source for several reflections, both ancient and contemporary, and therefore the safest link between old and contemporary versions. In addition, in the modern and contemporary summaries and tales analysed here, predominance is given to epics (Homer and other famous stories known from the epic cycle) as a source, exemplified by texts belonging to various literary works from across the globe, focused on the influence that major political phenomena can have on universal creativity.

Author : Matthew Pethers,Daniel Diez Couch
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781684485093

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The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and Art by Matthew Pethers,Daniel Diez Couch Pdf

The essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practices—from diaries and poetry, to almanacs and commonplace books, to sermons and lists, to Indigenous ruins and other material shards and fragments—often overlooked by critics in a scholarly privileging of the “whole.” Contributors from literary studies, book history, and visual culture discuss a host of canonical and non-canonical figures, from Edward Taylor and Washington Irving to Mary Rowlandson and Sarah Kemble Knight, offering insight into the many intellectual, ideological, and material variations of “form” that populated the early American cultural landscape. As these essays reveal, the casting of the fragmentary as aesthetically eccentric or incomplete was a way of reckoning with concerns about the related fragmentation of nation, society, and self. For a contemporary audience, they offer new ways to think about the inevitable gaps and absences in our cultural and historical archive.

Author : Zachary Tavlin
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780817360894

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Glancing Visions by Zachary Tavlin Pdf

"The sweeping vantages that typify American landscape painting from the nineteenth century by Thomas Cole and other members of the Hudson School are often interpreted for their geopolitical connotations, as visual attempts to tame the wild, alleviating fears of a savage frontier through views that subdue the landscape to the eye. Zachary Tavlin's "Glancing Visions" challenges the long-standing assumption that visuality in nineteenth-century art and literature was inherently imperialistic or possessive. While there is much to be said for both material, economic, and theological impulses to clear the wilderness, superimpose a national identity, and usher in a Puritanical idyll, many literary figures of the era display a purposeful disdain for the "possessive gaze," signaling instead a preference for subtle glances, often informed by early photography, Impressionism, new techniques in portraiture, and, soon after, the dawn of cinema. The visual subjectivities and contingencies introduced by these media made room for a visual counter-narrative, one informed by a mode of seeing that moves fast and lightly across the surface of things. Tavlin probes Nathaniel Hawthorne's idea of the imagination, one that derives from both the camera obscura (in "The Custom House") and the daguerreotype (in The House of the Seven Gables), each in its way an instance of the "glance" and entirely dependent on temporal moments. The poetry of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper toggles between gazes and glances, unsettling two competing forms of racialized seeing as they pertain to nineteenth-century Black life and racial hierarchies--the sentimental gaze and the slave trader's glance--highlighting the life-and-death stakes of both looking anyone squarely in the eye and looking away. Emily Dickinson's "certain slant of light," syntactical oddities, and her stitching of scraps and fragments into the fascicles that constitute her corpus all derive from a commitment to contingency, "the ungrounded life's only defense against the abyss of non-being." Tavlin investigates, as well, Henry James's vexed but entirely dependent relationship to literary and painterly impressionism, and William Carlos Williams's imagist poetics as a response to early cinema's use of the cut as the basis for a new visual grammar. Each of these literary artists, Tavlin argues--via their own distinctive sensibilities and the artistic or technological counterparts that informed them-refuse the authoritative, all-possessive gaze in favor of the glance, a mode of seeing, thinking, and being that made way for what we now think of as commonplace, namely modernity"--

Author : Ilene Susan Fort,Mary L. Lenihan,Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015034037088

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The Figure in American Sculpture by Ilene Susan Fort,Mary L. Lenihan,Los Angeles County Museum of Art Pdf

Although most modern art historians viewed the figure as regressive, early-20th-century American sculptors embraced the human form. Curator of American Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Fort presents a wide selection of works from this period, not as a movement from the naturalistic to the abstract but as a reflection of a rapidly changing American society. While she sees much modern American sculpture as rooted in the works of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), she shows how the figure?whether represented in genre, primitive, folk, archaic, or classical styles?allowed artists to criticize or praise modern society. Fort's selection of minority and female artists for the work is especially refreshing, and the biographies at the end of the book are useful because several are not well known. Unfortunately, the mostly black-and-white plates are small and cannot properly represent the lines and textures of the pieces. Regardless of the quality of the photographs, this highly original work complements Donald Martin Reynold's Masters of American Sculpture (LJ 4/1/94) and is recommended for fine arts collections and academic libraries. ǂb --Review by Julie C. Boehning from Library Journal.

Author : Cristina Giorcelli,Paula Rabinowitz
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816687527

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Fashioning the Nineteenth Century by Cristina Giorcelli,Paula Rabinowitz Pdf

In nineteenth-century Europe and the United States, fashion—once the province of the well-to-do—began to make its way across class lines. At once a democratizing influence and a means of maintaining distinctions, gaps in time remained between what the upper classes wore and what the lower classes later copied. And toward the end of the century, style also moved from the streets to the parlor. The third in a four-part series charting the social, cultural, and political expression of clothing, dress, and accessories, Fashioning the Nineteenth Century focuses on this transformative period in an effort to show how certain items of apparel acquired the status of fashion and how fashion shifted from the realm of the elites into the emerging middle and working classes—and back. The contributors to this volume are leading scholars from France, Italy, and the United States, as well as a practicing psychoanalyst and artists working in fashion and with textiles. Whether considering girls’ school uniforms in provincial Italy, widows’ mourning caps in Victorian novels, Charlie’s varying dress in Kate Chopin’s eponymous story, or the language of clothing in Henry James, the essays reveal how changes in ideals of the body and its adornment, in classes and nations, created what we now understand to be the imperatives of fashion. Contributors: Dagni Bredesen, Eastern Illinois U; Carmela Covato, U of Rome Three; Agnès Derail-Imbert, École Normale Supérieure/VALE U of Paris, Sorbonne; Clair Hughes, International Christian University of Tokyo; Bianca Iaccarino Idelson; Beryl Korot; Anna Masotti; Bruno Monfort, Université of Paris, Ouest Nanterre La Défense; Giuseppe Nori, U of Macerata, Italy; Marta Savini, U of Rome Three; Anna Scacchi, U of Padua; Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, U of Michigan.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UCD:31175034440084

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Notes and Queries by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kumiko Mukai
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 3039113682

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Hawthorne's Visual Artists and the Pursuit of a Transatlantic Aesthetics by Kumiko Mukai Pdf

Among Hawthorne's primary themes, the visual arts have usually been regarded as an afterthought and have only been examined to elucidate his own personal philosophy. Hawthorne's own contemporaries derided him for his 'mediocre' aesthetics and that view has been taken as received wisdom up to the present day. This study reexamines Hawthorne's aesthetics, and suggests that he was much more familiar with the art and artists of the time than has previously been acknowledged by critics. He developed his own eclectic and transatlantic view of art, a view which incorporated decorative arts like embroidery, while maintaining a modest estimation of his own talents. This book examines the full range of visual artists whom Hawthorne portrays. It argues that these portrayals illuminate the artist's dilemma of being fettered by New England Puritanism while at the same time being attracted to the richness and depth of both Victorian aesthetics and the artistic sense of Old World Catholicism. The ambiguous destinies of his artist-characters include misunderstandings and disputes, while at the same time they suggest a reconciliation of the conflicting sentiments and transatlantic perspectives of the writer himself.

Author : Anthony Appiah,Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 3951 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195170559

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Africana by Anthony Appiah,Henry Louis Gates (Jr.) Pdf

Ninety years after W.E.B. Du Bois first articulated the need for "the equivalent of a black Encyclopedia Britannica," Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr., realized his vision by publishing Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience in 1999. This new, greatly expanded edition of the original work broadens the foundation provided by Africana. Including more than one million new words, Africana has been completely updated and revised. New entries on African kingdoms have been added, bibliographies now accompany most articles, and the encyclopedia's coverage of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean has been expanded, transforming the set into the most authoritative research and scholarly reference set on the African experience ever created. More than 4,000 articles cover prominent individuals, events, trends, places, political movements, art forms, business and trade, religion, ethnic groups, organizations and countries on both sides of the Atlantic. African American history and culture in the present-day United States receive a strong emphasis, but African American history and culture throughout the rest of the Americas and their origins in African itself have an equally strong presence. The articles that make up Africana cover subjects ranging from affirmative action to zydeco and span over four million years from the earlies-known hominids, to Sean "Diddy" Combs. With entries ranging from the African ethnic groups to members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Africana, Second Edition, conveys the history and scope of cultural expression of people of African descent with unprecedented depth.

Author : Anthony Appiah,Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1372 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195337709

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Encyclopedia of Africa by Anthony Appiah,Henry Louis Gates (Jr.) Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Africa presents the most up-to-date and thorough reference on this region of ever-growing importance in world history, politics, and culture. Its core is comprised of the entries focusing on African history and culture from 2005's acclaimed five-volume Africana - nearly two-thirds of these 1,300 entries have been updated, revised, and expanded to reflect the most recent scholarship. Organized in an A-Z format, the articles cover prominent individuals, events, trends, places, political movements, art forms, business and trade, religions, ethnic groups, organizations, and countries throughout Africa. There are articles on contemporary nations of sub-Saharan Africa, ethnic groups from various regions of Africa, and European colonial powers. Other examples include Congo River, Ivory trade, Mau Mau rebellion, and Pastoralism. The Encyclopedia of Africa is sure to become the essential resource in the field.

Author : Frank Jewett Mather,Frederic Fairchild Sherman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015039831147

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Art in America by Frank Jewett Mather,Frederic Fairchild Sherman Pdf

Author : Mrs. Rose Virginia (Stewart) Berry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Art, American
ISBN : UIUC:30112124136612

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What Do You Know about American Art? by Mrs. Rose Virginia (Stewart) Berry Pdf

Author : Anne Lounsbery
Publisher : Harvard University Department of Comparative Literature
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128320517

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Thin Culture, High Art by Anne Lounsbery Pdf

In the early 19th century a perceived absence of literature in Russia and America gave rise to grandiose notions of literature's importance. This book examines how two traditions worked to refigure cultural lack by insisting on it. Through a comparative study of Gogol and Hawthorne, Lounsbery examines striking parallels.

Author : Janis Ekdahl
Publisher : Gale Cengage
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015007171690

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American Sculpture by Janis Ekdahl Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114300267

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Painting and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design by Anonim Pdf