| Fingering Ingres Contributor(s): Siegfried, Susan (Editor), Rifkin, Adrian (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0631225269 ISBN-13: 9780631225263 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell OUR PRICE: $38.48 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2001 Annotation: This book is a reassessment of the role of Ingres studies in the writing of nineteenth-century art history. The title Fingering Ingres refers to a remark of Jean Cassou, the French art critic, political militant and founding director of the Musee National d'Art Moderne, in which he wrote of Ingres' 'caressing' his materials with the tip of his 'finger-nail'. The volume pays tribute to Ingres' historiographical enigma in bringing together a set of essays that scratch at and perhaps puncture the surface of his received framings. Ranging from the scrupulous study of Ingres' incapacity to allow himself a finished oeuvre, to the artificial construction of his conflict with Delacroix, to a radical re-thinking of his role in cultural modernity, the essays pick out the textures of a crucial mytheme of nineteenth-century French art. Combining scholarship from different generations of the contemporary critical, social and semiotic histories of art, Fingering Ingres offers a freshly virtuoso and deconstructive approach to the art-historical genre of the artist's monograph. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - General - Art | Criticism & Theory |
| Dewey: 759.4 |
| LCCN: 2001043135 |
| Series: Art History Special Issues |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 6.77" W x 9.73" (1.02 lbs) 184 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1800-1850 |
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| Publisher Description: This book is a reassessment of the role of Ingres studies in the writing of nineteenth-century art history. The title Fingering Ingres refers to a remark of Jean Cassou, the French art critic, political militant and founding director of the Musee National d'Art Moderne, in which he wrote of Ingres' 'caressing' his materials with the tip of his 'finger-nail'. The volume pays tribute to Ingres' historiographical enigma in bringing together a set of essays that scratch at and perhaps puncture the surface of his received framings. Ranging from the scrupulous study of Ingres' incapacity to allow himself a finished oeuvre, to the artificial construction of his conflict with Delacroix, to a radical re-thinking of his role in cultural modernity, the essays pick out the textures of a crucial mytheme of nineteenth-century French art. Combining scholarship from different generations of the contemporary critical, social and semiotic histories of art, Fingering Ingres offers a freshly virtuoso and deconstructive approach to the art-historical genre of the artist's monograph |