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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Andrei Pop (Associate Professor, John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.10cm Weight: 0.602kg ISBN: 9780198709275ISBN 10: 0198709277 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 29 January 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Classicism and its Discontents 1: Tragedy, the Cultural Relativism of Henry Fuseli 2: Grave Monuments, Writing, and the Antique Present 3: Comedy, Dreaming, and the Sympathetic Spectator 4: Winckelmann's Fake and Activist Neoclassicism 5: The Satyr Play, or Naturalizing Human Nature 6: Ordinary Antiquity Conclusion Appendix I: Fuseli and Herder Appendix II: Fuseli and Homer Bibliography IndexReviewsIn a tour de force of scrupulous research and glittering insight, Pop persuades us that Fuseli's art did not fail to exemplify virtue, it ventured a new kind of history painting. Inspired by newly discovered remnants of pagan culture, by growing knowledge of cultures around the globe and by contemporary ideas of liberal humanism, Fuseli reformulated the relations of the classical and the modern in works of art which raise the spectre of the relativity of morals. More than a new account of Fuseli, this book is a readerly adventure in the history of art, and in the political and philosophical ideas underpinning current debates in social thought and visual culture. * Karen Lang, Associate Professor, History of Art, Univeristy of Warwick * Pop's intervention is deeply informed and highly original, rewriting the received history of neoclassicism. Fuseli emerges as a complex artistic, moral, and political character who engaged the question of the 'ends' of tolerance and sympathy in a liberal society while at the same time acknowledging the unpleasant, messy, vulgar, and indeed terrifying and traumatic configuration of its 'neopagan' classical past. Pop masterfully weaves the complicated story of a fraught dialogue between neoclassic and neopagan claims and fantasies. The book is not only an essential resource for a subtle interpretation of the materials of its period but also a masterclass in art-writing. * Whitney Davis, Pardee Professor of History and Theory of Ancient and Modern Art, University of California, Berkeley * Pop's intervention is deeply informed and highly original, rewriting the received history of neoclassicism. Fuseli emerges as a complex artistic, moral, and political character who engaged the question of the 'ends' of tolerance and sympathy in a liberal society while at the same time acknowledging the unpleasant, messy, vulgar, and indeed terrifying and traumatic configuration of its 'neopagan' classical past. Pop masterfully weaves the complicated story of a fraught dialogue between neoclassic and neopagan claims and fantasies. The book is not only an essential resource for a subtle interpretation of the materials of its period but also a masterclass in art-writing. Whitney Davis, Pardee Professor of History and Theory of Ancient and Modern Art, University of California, Berkeley In a tour de force of scrupulous research and glittering insight, Pop persuades us that Fuseli's art did not fail to exemplify virtue, it ventured a new kind of history painting. Inspired by newly discovered remnants of pagan culture, by growing knowledge of cultures around the globe and by contemporary ideas of liberal humanism, Fuseli reformulated the relations of the classical and the modern in works of art which raise the spectre of the relativity of morals. More than a new account of Fuseli, this book is a readerly adventure in the history of art, and in the political and philosophical ideas underpinning current debates in social thought and visual culture. Karen Lang, Associate Professor, History of Art, Univeristy of Warwick In a tour de force of scrupulous research and glittering insight, Pop persuades us that Fuseli's art did not fail to exemplify virtue, it ventured a new kind of history painting. Inspired by newly discovered remnants of pagan culture, by growing knowledge of cultures around the globe and by contemporary ideas of liberal humanism, Fuseli reformulated the relations of the classical and the modern in works of art which raise the spectre of the relativity of morals. More than a new account of Fuseli, this book is a readerly adventure in the history of art, and in the political and philosophical ideas underpinning current debates in social thought and visual culture. * Karen Lang, Associate Professor, History of Art, Univeristy of Warwick * Pop's intervention is deeply informed and highly original, rewriting the received history of neoclassicism. Fuseli emerges as a complex artistic, moral, and political character who engaged the question of the 'ends' of tolerance and sympathy in a liberal society while at the same time acknowledging the unpleasant, messy, vulgar, and indeed terrifying and traumatic configuration of its 'neopagan' classical past. Pop masterfully weaves the complicated story of a fraught dialogue between neoclassic and neopagan claims and fantasies. The book is not only an essential resource for a subtle interpretation of the materials of its period but also a masterclass in art-writing. * Whitney Davis, Pardee Professor of History and Theory of Ancient and Modern Art, University of California, Berkeley * Pop's book offers powerful new readings of several of Fuseli's most important paintings and also makes a significant contribution to the intellectual history of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. * Stephanie O'Rourke, Oxford Art Journal * Author InformationAndrei Pop is Associate Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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