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Idols and museum pieces : the nature of sculpture, its historiography and exhibition history 1640-1880 / Caroline van Eck (ed.).
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Reihe Kunst und Wirkmacht
- Studien aus dem Warburg-Haus ; Bd. 17.
- Kunst und Wirkmacht
- Studien aus dem Warburg-Haus ; Band 17
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Sculpture--Exhibitions--History.
- Sculpture.
- Sculpture--Exhibitions.
- History.
- Sculpture--Historiography.
- Museums--Curatorship.
- Museums.
- Idols and images.
- Historiography.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 291 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter ; Paris : Ecole du Louvre, [2017]
- Language Note:
- 10 English, 3 French contributions.
- Summary:
- The publication of Winckelmann's Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums in 1764 is considered as the defining moment in the genesis of the modern, scientific study of sculpture. It was a formalist and secular history, concentrating on the statue as a work of art, and studying sculpture in a museum setting, abstracting from its original religious, social or political functions. Other 17th- and 18th-century authors tried to understand those functions and why statues so often excited violent reactions ranging from adoration to abuse. The collection of essays aims to be a first investigation of the questions that arise out of an awareness that the origins of the Western historiography are much more complex than may appear from the perspective of Winckelmann's vision of the Graeco-Roman tradition.
- Contents:
- Sculptures in Print: The "Galleria Giustiniana" as Exemplar and Agent of Taste / Erin Downey Downey, Erin 19
- The Amsterdam Ivories of Francis van Bossuit: Reception and Transformation in the Eighteenth Century / Frits Scholten Scholten, Frits 35
- La sculpture comme source historique: Les dessins de la collection de François-Roger de Gaignières (1642-1715) / Anne Ritz-Guilbert Ritz-Guilbert, Anne 49
- Sculpture in Pieces: Peter Paul Rubens's "Miracles of Francis Xavier" and the Visual Tradition of Broken Idols / Anna C. Knaap Knaap, Anna C. 65
- Medusa's Terror in the Amsterdam Town Hall: How to Look at Sculptures in the Dutch Golden Age / Stijn Bussels Bussels, Stijn 85
- "Admirari vel deridere": Calvinistic Approaches to Classical Sculpture in the Netherlands / Ruurd Halbertsma Halbertsma, Ruurd 103
- Allegory, Ornament, and Prehistory's "Secret Influence": D'Hancarville versus Winckelmann / Hans Christian Hönes Hönes, Hans Christian 115
- Baron D'Hancarville's "Recherches" on the Evolution of Sculpture: Submerged Emblems and the Collective Self / Tomas Macsotay Macsotay, Tomas 127
- "Ut Sculptura Theatrum": On the Relation between Theatre and Sculpture in the Late Eighteenth Century / Bram van Oostveldt Oostveldt, Bram van 145
- "laster "versus" Marble: Wilhelm and Caroline von Humboldt and the Agency of Antique Sculpture / Pascal Griener Griener, Pascal 159
- How Does an idol enter a Museum?: Immersion and Aesthetic Autonomy at the Musée Charles X in the Louvre / Caroline van Eck Eck, Caroline van 177
- La présentation du "paragone" dans les dispositifs muséaux au XIX<sub>e</sub> siècle / Cecilia Hurley Hurley, Cecilia 195
- Idoles de l'île de Nias: Origines d'un Entichement Muséal / Thomas Beaufils Beaufils, Thomas 207.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-280) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783110406917
- 3110406918
- OCLC:
- 988932698
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