The living death of antiquity : neoclassical aesthetics /
The Living Death of Antiquity' examines the idealization of an antiquity that exhibits, in the words of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 'a noble simplicity and quiet grandeur.' Fitzgerald discusses the aesthetics of this strain of neoclassicism as manifested in a range of work in differen...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2022].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Classical presences.
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Table of Contents:
- 1:Introduction: Why Neoclassicism? ; 2:The Iliad Backtranslated: Alexander Pope and John Flaxman ; 3:Sculpture between the Graceful and the Heroic: Antonio Canova and Bertel Thorvaldsen ; 4:Voicing Antiquity: the Anacreontea and Charles Leconte de Lisle's EÌ?tudes Latines ; 5:Modernism, Neoclassicism, and Irony: Erik Satie's Socrate ; Conclusion.