Material Inspirations: The Interests of the Art Object in the Nineteenth Century and After

ISBN-13: 9780198858003 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 416 str.

Jonah Siegel

Recenzje

Material Inspirations is an admirable, learned study, and a major achievement in assessing the force and scope of nineteenth-century art history.

O autorze

Jonah Siegel is Distinguished Professor of English and Co-Director of the British Studies Center at Rutgers University. He has been a Fellow at the National Humanities Center, and a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, as well as a recipient of a Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. Aside from numerous articles on literature and the fine arts, he is the author of two books, Desire & Excess: The Nineteenth-Century Culture of Art (2000; Rudikoff Prize winner, 2000), and Haunted Museum: Longing, Travel, and the Art-Romance Tradition (2005), and the editor of The Emergence of the Modern Museum: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Sources (2007).