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Warm flesh, cold marble : Canova, Thorvaldsen and their critics

Title
  1. Warm flesh, cold marble : Canova, Thorvaldsen and their critics / David Bindman.
Published by
  1. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
Supplementary content
  1. Table of contents
Author
  1. Bindman, David, 1940-

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Description
  1. viii, 219 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  1. "This brilliant book focuses on the aesthetic concerns of the two most important sculptors of the early 19th century, the great Italian sculptor Antonio Canova (1757-1822) and his illustrious Danish rival Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844). Rather than comparing their artistic output, the distinguished art historian David Bindman addresses the possible impact of Kantian aesthetics on their work. Both artists had elevated reputations, and their sculptures attracted interest from philosophically minded critics. Despite the sculptors' own apparent disdain for theory, Bindman argues that they were in dialogue with and greatly influenced by philosophical and critical debates, and made many decisions in creating their sculptures specifically in response to those debates. Warm Flesh, Cold Marble considers such intriguing topics as the aesthetic autonomy of works of art, the gender of the subject, the efficacy of marble as an imitative medium, the question of color and texture in relation to ideas and practices of antiquity, and the relationship between the whiteness of marble and ideas of race. "--
Subject
  1. Thorvaldsen, Bertel, 1770-1844 > Aesthetics
  2. Canova, Antonio, 1757-1822 > Aesthetics
  3. Ästhetik
  4. Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 > Aesthetics
  5. Art criticism > Europe > History
Contents
  1. Introduction: A debate in marble -- I. Sculpture in practice: Gods and heroes, men and women -- Competing Masculinities -- Male and Female Together -- The Female Figure: Sensuality, Procreation and the Life Force -- II. Sculpture in theory: the 'philosophic' critics -- The Colour of Sculpture: Ancient and Modern -- Back to Kant.
Call number
  1. JQE 15-398
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author
  1. Bindman, David, 1940- author.
Title
  1. Warm flesh, cold marble : Canova, Thorvaldsen and their critics / David Bindman.
Publisher
  1. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014]
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Connect to:
  1. Table of contents
LCCN
  1. 2013042758
ISBN
  1. 9780300197891 (hardback)
  2. 0300197896 (hardback)
Research call number
  1. JQE 15-398
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