The multidisciplinary aesthetics of Walter Pater, the nineteenth century's most provocative critic, are explored by an international team of scholars. 'True aesthetic criticism' takes place working across the arts, Pater insists: acknowledging the differences between media, but seeking possibilities of interconnection. INDICE: List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Aesthetic Life: Thinking Across the Arts andthe Senses; E.Clements & L.Higgins PART I: PATER AND CONTEMPORARY VISUALITIESArt and the Museum; J.Siegel Pater and Contemporary Visual Art; J.B.Bullen The 'Necessity' of Corot and Whistler in Pater's 'Network' of Painters; L.Higgins Critical Connections and Quotational Strategies: Allegory and Aestheticism in Pater and Simeon Solomon; C.Cruise PART II: PATER AND THE DYNAMIC ARTS Pater's Auxerre Tapestry; K.Daley Sculpture, Style and Pater's Imaginative Sense ofTouch; L. Østermark-Johansen The Painting as Physical Object in a Verbal Portrait: Pater's 'A Prince of Court Painters' and Wilde's 'The Portrait of Mr. W.H.'; N.Kelvin Walter Pater, Film Theorist; C.Williams Pater's Musical Imagination: The Aural Architecture of 'The School of Giorgione' and Marius the Epicurean ; E.Clements Haunted Stages: Walter Pater and the 'Theatrical Mode of Life'; A.Eastham PART III: PATER AND THE PRACTICE OF WRITING Pater's Politics; M.Potolsky The Limitations of Schilleresque Self-Culture in Pater's IndividualistAesthetics; K.Hext The Art of the Novel: Pater and Fiction; L.Brake Bibliography Index
- ISBN: 978-0-230-23497-0
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 272
- Fecha Publicación: 21/05/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés