| Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture Contributor(s): Østermark-Johansen, Lene (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138256781 ISBN-13: 9781138256781 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $63.64 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections | Essays - Literary Criticism - Art | Sculpture & Installation |
| Dewey: 824.8 |
| Series: British Art: Global Contexts |
| Physical Information: 402 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture is the first monograph to discuss the Victorian critic Walter Pater's attitude to sculpture. It brings together Pater's aesthetic theories with his theories on language and writing, to demonstrate how his ideas of the visual and written language are closely interlinked. Going beyond Pater's views on sculpture as an art form, this study traces the notion of relief (rilievo) and hybrid form in Pater, and his view of the writer as sculptor, a carver in language. Alongside her treatment of rilievo as a pervasive trope, Lene stermark-Johansen also employs the idea of rivalry (paragone) more broadly, examining Pater's concern with positioning himself as an art critic in the late Victorian art world. Situating Pater within centuries of European aesthetic theories as never before done, Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture throws new light on the extraordinary complexity and coherence of Pater's writing: The critic is repositioned solidly within Victorian art and literature. |
