Fugitive objects
Catriona MacLeod · 2013
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In Fugitive Objects, Catriona MacLeod examines the question of why sculpture is both intensively discussed and yet rendered immaterial in German literature. She focuses on three forms of disappearance: sculpture{u2019}s vanishing as a legitimate art form at the beginning of the nineteenth century in German aesthetics, statues{u2019} migration from the domain of high art into mass reproduction and popular culture, and sculpture{u2019}s dislodging and relocation into literary discourse. Through original readings of Clemens Brentano, Achim von Arnim, Adalbert Stifter, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and others, MacLeod reveals that if sculpture has disappeared from much of nineteenth-century German literature and aesthetics, it is a vanishing act that paradoxically relocates the statue back onto another cultural pedestal, attesting to the powerful force of the medium. --
Book details
- Year
- 2013
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 252
- ISBN
- 9780810129344
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