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Continental Crosscurrents

British Criticism and European Art 1810-1910

Autor: J. B. Bullen

Jazyk:

Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: Oxford University Press

Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele

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Continental Crosscurrents is a series of case studies reflecting British attitudes to continental ar...

Informace o knize

Autor

J. B. Bullen

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

2005

Stránek

308

EAN

9780198186915

ISBN

0198186916

Enbook ID

04522774

Vydavatel

Oxford University Press

Hmotnost

532

Rozměry

142 x 226 x 27

Kompletní popis

Continental Crosscurrents is a series of case studies reflecting British attitudes to continental art during the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. It stresses the way in which the British went to the continent in their search for origins or their pursuit of sources of purity and originality. This cult of the primitive took many forms; it involved a reassessment of medieval German and Italian art and offered new ways of interpreting Venetian painting; it opened up new readings of architectural history and the 'discovery' of the Romanesque; it generated a debate about the value of returning to religious subjects in art and it raised the question of the relationship between modern art and Byzantine art in the early twentieth century. J. B. Bullen's original study presents some exciting findings. Few critics have noticed how much in advance of his time was Coleridge's passion for medieval art; Ruskin's debt in the Stones of Venice to Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris has hardly been noted, and Browning's involvement with the debate on the morality of Christian art is explored more extensively than previously.Three chapters are devoted to the role of British criticism in identifying the Romanesque style in architecture and differentiating it from the Gothic. They trace the concept as it arose in criticism at the beginning of the nineteenth century; its employment in the remarkable buildings of Edmund Sharpe and Sara Losh and the way in which it reached a climax in Waterhouse's enigmatic choice of Romanesque for the Natural History Museum in London. The collection concludes with two continental episodes from the history of modernism. One is the explosive British reaction to the primitivism of Gauguin; the other involves the identifying of one of the characters in D. H. Lawrence's novel Women in Love. Curious evidence suggests that the malevolent figure of Loerke was based on a German sculptor whom Lawrence met in Italy before the First World War.