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Item Number: 111141
Title: Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture
Author: Ostermark-Johansen, Lene
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781409405849
Description: Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011. 25cm., hardcover, 364pp., 20 color, 89 b&w illus. Summary: 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 Østermark-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. Contents: Introduction; Pater and the Italian Renaissance paragone; Pater and German aesthetic thought; Pater and French aestheticism; Pater and aestheticist 'painting'; Pater and Greek scripture; Style and language of sculpture. (British Art: Global Contexts)
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