Art and life in aestheticism : de-humanizing and re-humanizing art, the artist, and the artistic receptor /
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| Language: | English |
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Basingstoke [England] ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction - : reflections on the relationship between the art and life in aestheticism / Kelly Comfort
- The critic as cosmopolite : Baudelaire's international sensibility and the transformation of viewer subjectivity / Margueritte Murphy
- Rossetti's aesthetically saturated readings : art's de-humanizing power / Ileana Marin
- Dickens' la carte : aesthetic victualism and the invigoration of the artist in Huysmans' Against nature / Paul Fox
- Aesthetic vampirism : Pater, Wilde, and the irony of the modern object / Andrew Eastham
- The de-humanization of the artistic receptor : the George Circle's rejection of Paterian aestheticism / Yvonne Ivory
- Art for the body's sake : Nietzsche's physical aestheticism / Kael Ashbaugh
- From "God of the creation" to "hangman God" : Joyce's re-assessment of aestheticism / Daniel M. Shea
- The aesthetic anxiety : avant-garde poetics, autonomous aesthetics, and the idea of politics / Robert Archambeau
- On the Cold War, American aestheticism, the Nabokov problem - and me / Gene H. Bell-Villada
- Beauty by damned : or why Adorno valorizes carrion, stench, and putrefaction / Charles B. Sumner
- "This temptation to be undone" : Sontag, Barthes, and the uses of style / Sarah Garland
- Art for heart's sake : the aesthetic existences of Kierkegaard, Pater, and Iser / Ben De Bruyn.