Animating the Antique : Sculptural Encounter in the Age of Aesthetic Theory

Animating the Antique : Sculptural Encounter in the Age of Aesthetic Theory / Sarah Betzer.

Framed by tensions between figural sculpture experienced in the round and its translation into two-dimensional representations, Animating the Antique explores enthralling episodes in a history of artistic and aesthetic encounters. Moving across varied locations--among them Rome, Florence, Naples, Lo...

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Main Author: Betzer, Sarah (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
1700-1899
Sculpture, Ancient > Appreciation > History > 18th century.
Sculpture, Ancient > Appreciation > History > 19th century.
Figure sculpture > Appreciation > History > 18th century.
Figure sculpture > Appreciation > History > 19th century.
Aesthetics, Modern > 18th century.
Aesthetics, Modern > 19th century.
ART / History / Romanticism.
Aesthetics, Modern
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction Art History, Aesthetics, and the Body After Archaeology
  • Chapter 1 Toward an Eighteenth-Century Ontology of Ancient Sculpture
  • Chapter 2 Moving Shadows
  • Chapter 3 From the Ash to the
  • Chapter 4 In the Round
  • Coda Photography, the Rise of Relief, and Nachleben
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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