Fugitive Objects: Sculpture and Literature in the German Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780810129672 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 186 str.

Catriona MacLeod

Opis

Winner of the 2014 Jean-Pierre Barricelli Prize for Best Book on Romanticism
In "Fugitive Objects, " Catriona MacLeod examines the question of why sculpture is both intensively discussed and yet rendered immaterial in German literature. She focuses on three forms of disappearance: sculpture s vanishing as a legitimate art form at the beginning of the nineteenth century in German aesthetics, statues migration from the domain of high art into mass reproduction and popular culture, and sculpture s dislodging and relocation into literary discourse. Through original readings of Clemens Brentano, Achim von Arnim, Adalbert Stifter, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and others, MacLeod reveals that if sculpture has disappeared from much of nineteenth-century German literature and aesthetics, it is a vanishing act that paradoxically relocates the statue back onto another cultural pedestal, attesting to the powerful force of the medium."