Civilisation and nineteenth-century art : a European concept in global context / edited by David O'Brien.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Brien, David, 1962- editor.

College Art Association (U.S.). Annual Conference 2012 : Los Angeles, Calif.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and society--Europe--History--19th century--Congresses.

Art and society.

Art, European--19th century--Themes, motives--Congresses.

Art, European.

Art, Modern--19th century--History--Congresses.

Art, Modern.

Civilization in art--Congresses.

Civilization in art.

Art, European--Themes, motives.

History.

Themes, motives.

Europe.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 252 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Civilization and 19th-century art

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.

Summary:

This volume explores the ways in which artists and art historians envisioned civilisation over the course of the long nineteenth century. More specifically, it examines how Europeans and Americans represented themselves and others through the lens of civilisation, how understanding of historical and artistic development were reshaped by the ideas, and how the changed and was put to new uses as the century progressed. Coined in mid-eighteenth-century Europe, civilisation was initially thought of as a singly process that all societies underwent, some faster than others. In the nineteenth century, civilisation became the primary way of understanding historical development, but Europe's experiences in the world changed the meaning of the term, By the end of the century, the term was used to distinguish between distinctly different cultures, and there were some doubts about the direction and superiority of the European form. Civilisation was the subject of some of the most prominent public mural paintings and sculptures in Europe and the United States especially those that speculated on the direction of history. It also underpinned Western depictions of non-Western societies, understandings of artistic and historical development throughout the world, and evaluations of social progress and artistic excellence. This volume explores all of these subjects, and will be of considerable interest to students and scholars of art history, European studies and postcolonial studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Theism and the civilising process in James Barry's Society of Arts murals / Daniel Guernsey Guernsey, Daniel 21

2 Evaluating others: the mirroring of Chinese civilisation in Britain / Greg M. Thomas Thomas, Greg M. 48

3 Civilisation as a suffering woman in late nineteenth-century River Plate / Laura Malosetti Costa Costa, Laura Malosetti 73

4 Civilising Rome: Anglo-American artists and the colonial encounter / Melissa Dabakis Dabakis, Melissa 91

5 Kultur and Zivilisation in 1842-43, or the failure of the first global art history / Jeanne-Marie Musto Musto, Jeanne-Marie 109

6 Civilisation and the encyclopaedic impulse: Hokusai, Diderot, and the Japanese album as encyclopédic / Emily Eastgate Brink Brink, Emily Eastgate 130

7 Second Rome or seat of savagery? The case of Byzantium in nineteenth-century European imaginaries / Maria Taroutina Taroutina, Maria 150

8 Going native/going British: Victorian mimesis, alterity, and repetition / Julie Codell Codell, Julie 178

9 Pre-Columbian civilisation as cultural patrimony: archaeology and nationalism at the world's fairs / Matthew Johnston Johnston, Matthew 203.

Notes:

"This volume grew out of two sessions at the Annual Conference for the College Art Assocation in Los Angeles in 2012"--P. xiii.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-245) and index.

ISBN:

9781784992682

1784992682

OCLC:

957184964