Desire and Excess
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: September 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780691049144
Subjects: History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Poetry & poets: 19th century; World history: c 1750 to c 1900; c 1800 to c 1900; Historiography; Art and literature; Art & Art Instruction; History - Neoclassical; Art; History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945); History; Art / History / General; Art and Architecture; Comparative Literature; History - General; 19th century; Artists; Arts, Modern
First sentence: the life of institutions of art but was, on the contrary, connate with the establishment of the organized bodies and conceptual models that were to determine the development of art in the nineteenth century. Examination of the institutions of art at the moment of their formation quickly reveals the deep roots of the challenge of the past, its formative presence at the birth of the modern concept of the artist.