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Author Pierce, Gillian Borland, 1966-

Title Scapeland : writing the landscape from Diderot's Salons to the postmodern museum / Gillian B. Pierce.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2012.

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Description 1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations (some color).
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Series Faux titre ; 383
Faux titre ; 383.
Contents Landscape and the sublime, or, The art of nature -- Les limites de l'imitation : Diderot and the Salons -- Baudelaire's Parisian cityscape : Charles Meryon and Le spleen de Paris -- Mapping the city as dreamscape : André Breton and le pointe sublime -- "Scapeland" : the sublime and Lyotard's Les immatériaux.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-240).
Summary Scapeland: Writing the Landscape from Diderot's Salons to the Postmodern Museum is a comparative, interdisciplinary study tracing theories of the sublime and a history of spectatorship from Diderot's eighteenth-century French Salons, through art criticism by Baudelaire and Breton, to Jean-François Lyotard's postmodern exhibition Les Immatériaux . In the Salons, an exploration of the painted landscape becomes an encounter with both the limits of representation and the infinite possibilities of fiction. Baudelaire and Breton explore similar limits in their work, set against the backdrop of the.
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Subject Sublime, The, in literature.
Sublime, The, in literature.
Spectators in literature.
Spectators in literature.
Landscapes in literature.
Landscapes in literature.
French literature -- History and criticism.
French literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Pierce, Gillian Borland, 1966- Scapeland. Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2012 9042035943 9789042035942
ISBN 9401208697 (electronic book)
9789401208697 (electronic book)
9042035943
9789042035942