Enchanted objects: visual art in contemporary fiction
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Main Author: Hepburn, Allan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto [Ont.] University of Toronto Press c2010 (2010)
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 278 p.)
ISBN:9781442686397
1442686391
9781442641006

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