The essay explores a decade in which the picturesque comes of age: in gardens, it is replaced by Repton's gardenesque; in the aesthetic debate, its earlier formalism is replaced by the theory of psychological associations; in England the inception of mass visual culture feeds the public with a proliferation of images, prints, cheap reproductions. The essay analyses Richard Payne Knight's inquiry on taste, in which the picturesque becomes associated with social distinction; at the end of the decade, picturesque places, characters, interiors, objects, are viewed through the lens of irony. The final avatars of the picturesque fashion victims are Flaubert's Bouvard et Pécuchet.
1800-1810 : the Democracy of the Picturesque / F. Orestano - In: Le Pittoresque : métamorphoses d’une quête dans l’Europe moderne et contemporaine / [a cura di] J-P. Lethuillier, O. Parsis-Barubé. - Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2012. - ISBN 9782812405723. - pp. 341-358 (( convegno Le Pittoresque : evolutions d'un code, enjeux, formes et acteurs d'une quete dans l'Europe moderne et contemporaine tenutosi a Lille nel 2007.
1800-1810 : the Democracy of the Picturesque
F. OrestanoPrimo
2012
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The essay explores a decade in which the picturesque comes of age: in gardens, it is replaced by Repton's gardenesque; in the aesthetic debate, its earlier formalism is replaced by the theory of psychological associations; in England the inception of mass visual culture feeds the public with a proliferation of images, prints, cheap reproductions. The essay analyses Richard Payne Knight's inquiry on taste, in which the picturesque becomes associated with social distinction; at the end of the decade, picturesque places, characters, interiors, objects, are viewed through the lens of irony. The final avatars of the picturesque fashion victims are Flaubert's Bouvard et Pécuchet.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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