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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sarah E Betzer |
ISBN: | 9780271088839 0271088834 |
OCLC Number: | 1240415677 |
Description: | xiii, 258 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
Contents: | Art history, aesthetics, and the body after archaeology -- Toward an eighteenth-century ontology of ancient sculpture -- Moving shadows -- From the ash to the fire -- In the round -- Photography, the rise of relief, and Nachleben. |
Other Titles: | Sculptural encounter in the age of aesthetic theory |
Responsibility: | Sarah Betzer. |
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"Like the author's previous pathbreaking and widely admired book on the relation between portrait painting in the studio of Ingres and the broader problematics of painting 'history,' Animating the Antique is painstaking, original, and uncompromising. Weaving art history with aesthetics, the history of archaeology and of collections, and other topics, Betzer's study of the figuration of sculpture in two-dimensional representations sets a unique insight into a multifaceted framework."-Whitney Davis, author of Replications: Archaeology, Art History, Psychoanalysis "A beautifully written book. One of the most appealing aspects of Animating the Antique is the way it interweaves the histories of discourse and practice over nearly two hundred years. Something similar can be said about painting and sculpture, media that are typically studied largely in isolation from each other: this is the rare book to bring them together in a substantial and illuminating way."-Michael Cole, author of Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Art of the Figure Read more...

