TY - THES

T1 - Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture

AU - Østermark-Johansen, Lene

PY - 2012/9/28

Y1 - 2012/9/28

N2 - Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture is the first monograph to discuss the Victorian critic Walter Pater's attitude to sculpture. It brings together Pater's aesthetic theories with his theories on language and writing, to demonstrate how his ideas of the visual and written language are closely linked. Going beyond Pater's views on sculpture as an art form, this study traces the notion of relief (rilievo) and hybrid form in Pater, and his view of the writer as sculptor, a carver in language. Alongside her treatment of rilievo as a pervasive trope, Lene Østermark-Johansen also employs the idea of rivalry (paragone) more broadly, examining Pater's concern with positioning himself as an art critic in the late Victorian art world. Situating Pater within centuries of European aesthetic theories as never before done, Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture throws new light on the extraordinary complexity and coherence of Pater's writing: the critic is repositioned solidly within Victorian art and literature.

AB - Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture is the first monograph to discuss the Victorian critic Walter Pater's attitude to sculpture. It brings together Pater's aesthetic theories with his theories on language and writing, to demonstrate how his ideas of the visual and written language are closely linked. Going beyond Pater's views on sculpture as an art form, this study traces the notion of relief (rilievo) and hybrid form in Pater, and his view of the writer as sculptor, a carver in language. Alongside her treatment of rilievo as a pervasive trope, Lene Østermark-Johansen also employs the idea of rivalry (paragone) more broadly, examining Pater's concern with positioning himself as an art critic in the late Victorian art world. Situating Pater within centuries of European aesthetic theories as never before done, Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture throws new light on the extraordinary complexity and coherence of Pater's writing: the critic is repositioned solidly within Victorian art and literature.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - Walter Pater

KW - Style

KW - Sculpture

KW - Art criticism

KW - Decadence

KW - Aestheticism

KW - Archaeology

KW - Form

KW - Translation

KW - Painting

KW - Paragone

KW - Reception of the Renaissance

KW - Reception of Antiquity

M3 - Doctoral thesis

SN - 978-1-4094-0584-9

BT - Walter Pater and the Language of Sculpture

PB - Det Humanistiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet

CY - København

ER -