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Auteur(s) : Pop, Andrei
Titre(s) : Antiquity, theatre, and the painting of Henry Fuseli [Texte imprimé] / Andrei Pop
Publication : Oxford (GB) ; New York : Oxford university press, 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (336 p.-[8] p. de pl.) : ill. en noir et en coul. ; 25 cm
Collection : Classical presences
Lien à la collection : Classical presences
Note(s) : The rediscovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the eighteenth century challenged European
assumptions about ancient life; just as influential, if quieter, was the revolution
caused by translations of Greek tragedy. Art of the mid-eighteenth to early nineteenth
centuries dealt with the violence and seeming irrationality of tragic action as an
account of the rituals and beliefs of a foreign culture, worshipping strange gods
and enacting unfamiliar customs. The result was a focus on the radical difference
of the past which, however, was thought to still have something to teach us: not how
to live better, but that we live differently and should allow others to do so as well.
In recognizing tragedy as an alien cultural form, modern Europe recognized its own
historical status as one culture among many.00Naturally, this insight was resisted.
Greek tragedy was seldom performed. In painting, it lived a shadow existence alongside
more didactic subject matter, emerging explicitly only in a corpus of wash drawings
by Anglo-Swiss artist Henry Fuseli (1741-1825), and an international circle of artists
active in Rome in the 1770s. In this volume, Pop examines Fuseli as exemplary of a
pluralist classicism, paying especial attention to his experiments with moral and
aesthetic conventions in the more private medium of drawing. He analyses this broad
view of culture through the lens of Fuseli's life and work; his remarkable acquaintances
Emma Hamilton, Erasmus Darwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft, and the great theorists of
art and morals to whom he responded, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johann Joachim Winckelmann,
and David Hume, play prominent roles in this investigation of how antiquity became
modern
Sujet(s) : Füssli, Johann Heinrich (1741-1825) -- Critique et interprétation
Art -- Influence classique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780198709275. - ISBN 0198709277 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb450608745
Notice n° :
FRBNF45060874
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