Paragone in Nineteenth-Century Art

Informationen zum Autor Sarah J. Lippert is Associate Professor of Art History and at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Paragone: Past and Present. Zusammenfassung Offering an examination of the paragone, meaning artistic rivalry, in nineteenth-century France and England, this book considers how artists were impacted by prevailing aesthetic theories, or institutional and cultural paradigms, to compete in the art world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: An Introduction to the Paragone; Chapter 2: The Archetype of Beauty: Narcissus and the Birth of the beau idéal; Chapter 3: Pygmalion and Galatea: The Battle between Iconophobes and Iconodules; Chapter 4: Salomé versus Medusa; Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Lippert, Sarah J. Lippert
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.04.2019
• EAN: 9781472430953
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-3095-3
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Routledge Research in Art History; Routledge Research in Art History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; England, France, ART / History / General, ART / European, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Art