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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780714103321
• Autore: Betzer Sarah E. <1972->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• ISBN: 0-271-09669-1
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 732
• Soggetti: 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
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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, London, Dresden, and Paris--Sarah Betzer explores a history that has yet to be written: that of the Janus-faced nature of interactions with the antique by which sculptures and beholders alike were caught between the promise of animation and the threat of mortification.Examining the traces of affective and transformative sculptural encounters, the book takes off from the ; decades marked by the archaeological, art-historical, and art-philosophical developments of the mid-eighteenth century and culminantes in fin de siècle anthropological, psychological, and empathic frameworks. It turns on two fundamental and interconnected arguments: that an eighteenth-century ontology of ancient sculpture continued to inform encounters with the antique well into the nineteenth century, and that by attending to the enduring power of this model, we can newly appreciate the distinctively modern terms of antique sculpture's allure. As Betzer shows, these eighteenth-century developments had far-reaching ramifications for the making and beholding of modern art, the articulations of art theory, the writing of art history, and a significantly queer Nachleben of the antique.Bold and wide-ranging, Animating the Antique sheds light upon the work of myriad artists, in addition to that of writers ranging from Goethe and Winckelmann to Hegel, Walter Pater, and Vernon Lee. It will be especially welcomed by scholars and students working in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art history, art writing, and art historiography.