1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910792421803321

Autore

Bruno Paul W.

Titolo

Kant's concept of genius : its origin and function in the third 'critique' / / Paul W. Bruno

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2010

ISBN

1-4725-4571-0

1-282-52607-3

9786612526077

1-4411-9023-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (173 p.)

Collana

Continuum studies in philosophy

Classificazione

5,1

CF 5015

CF 5017

Disciplina

193

Soggetti

Genius

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages [154]-157) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Origins of genius -- Aspects of the third critique -- Nature -- Genius -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

While many studies have chronicled the Romantic legacy of artistic genius, this book uncovers the roots of the concept of genius in Kant's third Critique, alongside the development of his understanding of nature. Paul Bruno addresses a genuine gap in the existing scholarship by exploring the origins of Kant's thought on aesthetic judgment and particularly the artist. The development of the word 'genius' and its intimate association with the artist played itself out in a rich cultural context, a context that is inescapably significant in Western thought. Bruno shows how in many ways we are still interrogating the ways in which a nature governed by physical laws can be reconciled with a spirit of human creativity and freedom. This book leads us to a better understanding of the centrality of understanding the modern artistic enterprise, characterized as it is by creativity, for modern conceptions of the self.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910963923803321

Autore

Thomas Julia <1971->

Titolo

Pictorial Victorians : the inscription of values in word and image / / Julia Thomas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2004

ISBN

0-8214-4137-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

741.6/4/094109034

Soggetti

Illustration of books, Victorian - Great Britain

Illustration of books - Great Britain - History - 19th century

National characteristics in art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-197) and index.

Nota di contenuto

War and peace: word and image in mid-Victorian culture -- Picturing slavery: Uncle Tom's cabin and its early illustrations -- Pictures, poems, politics: illustrating Tennyson -- Crinolineomania: Punch's female malady -- Nation and narration: the Englishness of Victorian narrative painting -- Tale of two stories: Joseph Noel Paton's In memoriam -- Telling tales: adultery and maternity in past and present.

Sommario/riassunto

The Victorians were image obsessed. The middle decades of the nineteenth century saw an unprecedented growth in the picture industry. Technological advances enabled the Victorians to adorn with images the pages of their books and the walls of their homes. But this was not a wholly visual culture. Pictorial Victorians focuses on two of the most popular mid-nineteenth-century genres-illustration and narrative painting-that blurred the line between the visual and textual. Illustration negotiated text and image on the printed page, while narrative painting juxtaposed the two media in its formulation of pictorial stories. Author Julia Thomas reassesses mid-nineteenth-century values in the light of this interplay. The dialogue between word and image generates meanings that are intimately related to the Victorians' image of themselves. Illustrations in Victorian publications and the narrative scenes that lined the walls of the Royal Academy reveal the Victorians' ideas about the world in which they lived and their notions of gender, class, and race. Pictorial Victorians surveys a



range of material, from representations of the crinoline, to the illustrations that accompanied Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin and Tennyson's poetry, to paintings of adultery. It demonstrates that the space between text and image is one in which values are both constructed and questioned.