{"product_id":"the-literate-eye-victorian-art-writing-and-modernist-aesthetics","title":"The Literate Eye: Victorian Art Writing And Modernist Aesthetics","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Victorian Britain, Authors Produced A Luminous And Influential Body Of Writings About The Visual Arts. From John Ruskin'S Fivevolume Celebration Of J. M.W. Turner To Walter Pater'S Essays On The Italian Renaissance, Victorian Writers Disseminated A New Idea In The Nineteenth Century, That Art Spectatorship Could Provide One Of The Most Intense And Meaningful Forms Of Human Experience.In The Literate Eye, Rachel Teukolsky Analyzes The Vivid Archive Of Victorian Art Writing To Reveal The Key Role Played By Nineteenthcentury Authors In The Rise Of Modernist Aesthetics. Though Traditional Accounts Locate A Break Between Victorian Values And The Experimental Styles Of The Twentieth Century, Teukolsky Traces How Certain Art Writers Promoted A Formalism That Would Come To Dominate Canons Of Twentiethcentury Art. Wellknown Texts By Ruskin, Pater, And Wilde Appear Alongside Lesserknown Texts Drawn From The Rich Field Of Victorian Print Culture, Including Gallery Reviews, Scientific Treatises, Satirical Cartoons, And Tracts On Early Photography. Spanning The Years 1840 To 1910, Her Argument Lends A New Understanding To The Transition From Victorianism To Modernism, A Period Of Especially Lively Exchange Between Artists And Intellectuals, Here Narrated With Careful Attention To The Historical Particularities And Real Events That Informed British Aesthetic Values.Lavishly Illustrated And Marked By Meticulous Research, The Literate Eye Offers An Eloquent Argument For The Influence Of Victorian Art Culture On The Museum Worlds Of Modernism, In A Revisionary Account That Ultimately Relocates The Notion Of The Modern To The Heart Of The Nineteenth Century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47089101996277,"sku":"DADAX0199739234","price":66.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/51K-YEPqVLL.jpg?v=1759425954","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/the-literate-eye-victorian-art-writing-and-modernist-aesthetics","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}