Collecting and appreciating
Subtitle: Henry James and the transformation of aesthetics in the age of consumption
By: Simone Francescato
Series: Cultural interactions: studies in the relationship between the arts -- v. 21
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9783034301633
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-205) and index.
Table of contents: title: Appreciation in the age of consumption. The rise of consumption as an aesthetic revolution; Collecting as a modern form of art appreciation; The problem of art consumption for John Ruskin; title: Henry James's early response to collecting. Henry James and the Ruskinian picturesque; Picturesque relics vs. renovated collectibles; title: Between aestheticism and naturalism. The aesthete and the naturalist as cultural commodifiers; The impossible painting and the ugly statuettes; title: The princess Casamassima. Unmasking the naturalist collector: Zola, Turgenev and James; A youth upon whom nothing was lost; The last sacrifice; The extending of one's horizon; title: Henry James's aesthetics of desire. Georg Simmel's "value-increasing process"; The ambiguities of a fin-de-siecle connoisseur: Bernard Berenson; The most exquisite economy: Henry James's aesthetics of desire; Appreciation and interpretation; title: The spoils of Poynton. The buried bone and the tiny nuggets; A hindrance in the quality of the material; The method at the heart of madness; title: The golden bowl. Rounding off the corners of life; Small shining diamonds out of the sweepings of an ordered house; The steel hoop and the silken rope.