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Enchanted Objects : Visual Art in Contemporary Fiction /
Enchanted Objects investigates the relationship between visual art and contemporary fiction, addressing the problems that arise when paintings, deluxe books, porcelains, or statues are represented in contemporary novels. The distinction between objects and art objects depends on aesthetics. While so...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
2010
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : art and objects in contemporary fiction. Aesthetic objects ; Enchantment ; Display ; Looking at collections ; Certain distances
- Details : Vermeer and specificity. In particular ; Women, objects, stillness ; A poetics of detail ; The fate of two paintings ; Labour and excess in Girl with a pearl earring
- Ornament : books in A case of curiosities and Salamander. Enchanted books ; Theories of ornament ; A case of curiosities : collection and display ; Books and infinity in Salamander
- Fragility : the case of Utz. Broken idols ; The end of museums ; Fragility
- Looking at ugliness : Pascali's island and Stone virgin. Representation ; Digging ; Theories of ugliness ; Conservation
- Conclusion : on display.