"The Germ"; Origins and Progenies of Pre-Raphaelite Interart Aesthetics (24) (Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts) - Softcover

Spinozzi, Paola; Bizzotto, Elisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3034302983 ISBN 13: 9783034302982

Verlag: Peter Lang UK, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

It was in 'The Germ '(1850), the first British magazine with an aesthetic manifesto, that the interart theories of the Pre-Raphaelites took shape. The thirteen young contributors advocated an ethical approach to art while at the same time acknowledging self-referentiality and meta-discoursivity. They defined the specificity of each mode of artistic expression while exploring the dynamic between word and image, moving from realism towards Symbolism and even anticipating Surrealism. The Aesthetes and Decadents were fascinated; the Modernists felt challenged. Later in the twentieth century a succession of reappraisals transformed the Pre-Raphaelites into a well-marketed group of eccentrics, but neglected the complexity of their cross-cultural, verbal/visual art. This study aims to explain why claims about the autonomy and interrelatedness of the arts, expressed in the form of a provocative monthly journal, proved so influential as to be a source of inspiration for the 'Oxford and Cambridge Magazine', 'The Century Guild Hobby Horse', 'The Yellow Book', 'The Savoy', and even for Modernist periodicals. Often regarded as a juvenile venture, 'The Germ 'was in fact a laboratory for expressive forms, themes, and ideas that had an enormous impact on the history of British culture.

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"In their fresh reassessment of `The Germ', its ambitions, its paradoxes, and its self-reflexivity, the authors provide a useful literary and critical addition to the recent inclusion of Pre-Raphaelitism within the broader context of European Avant-gardes [...]." (Beatrice Laurent, Cahiers victoriens et edouardiens 79, 2014)

Biografía del autor:

Paola Spinozzi is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Ferrara. Her research includes an investigation of ekphrasis, illustration, and calligraphy in the work of William Morris, D. G. Rossetti, Walter Crane, and A. S. Byatt as well as a comparative study of scientific and creative writing. She is the author of Sopra il reale. Osmosi interartistiche nel Preraffaellitismo e nel Simbolismo inglese (2005) and the co-editor of Origins as a Paradigm in the Sciences and in the Humanities (2010) and Discourses and Narrations in the Biosciences (2011). Elisa Bizzotto is Lecturer in English Literature at IUAV University of Venice. Her main research focuses on Victorian and late Victorian literature and culture, and she has written extensively on Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, Aubrey Beardsley, and fin-de-siecle culture. She is the author of La mano e l'anima. Il ritratto immaginario fin de siecle (2001) and co-edited, with Paola Spinozzi, the first Italian edition of The Germ (2008).

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• Verlag: Peter Lang UK
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 3034302983
• ISBN 13: 9783034302982
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 316