
Fugitive Objects
Sculpture and Literature in the German Nineteenth Century
Catriona MacLeod(Author)
Northwestern University Press
Published on 30. December 2013
Book
Hardback
186 pages
978-0-8101-2967-2 (ISBN)
Description
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's vanishing as a legitimate art form at the beginning of the nineteenth century in German aesthetics, statues' migration from the domain of high art into mass reproduction and popular culture, and sculpture'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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Evanston
United States
Illustrations
27 black & white images
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
456 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8101-2967-2 (9780810129672)
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Person
Catriona MacLeod is a professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA.