Hawthorne Sculpture And The Question Of American Art

Author : Deanna Fernie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351931547
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hawthorne, Sculpture, and the Question of American Art written by Deanna Fernie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deanna Fernie analyzes the significance of sculpture in Hawthorne's fiction through the recurring motif of the fragment in its double guise as ruin and project. Her book casts new light on Hawthorne's memorable ruined and unfinished images, from the rough-hewn figurehead of 'Drowne's Wooden Image' (1844) to the tattered letter 'A' in the unfinished loft of the Custom House in The Scarlet Letter (1850) and the unfinished bust of Donatello in The Marble Faun (1860). Fernie shows how the tension between the formed and unformed enabled Hawthorne to interrogate the origins and the distinctive possibilities of art in America in relation to established European models. At the same time, she suggests that sculpture challenged and provoked Hawthorne's shaping of his own specifically literary art, stimulating him to develop its capacities for expressing irresolution and change. Fernie establishes the intellectual contexts for her study through a discussion of sculpture and fragmentary form as revealed in American, British, and Continental thought. Her book will be an important text not only for American literature scholars but also for anyone interested in British and Continental Romanticism and the intersections of art and literature.

Author : Claudia Durst Johnson
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817300511
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Productive Tension of Hawthorne's Art written by Claudia Durst Johnson and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In both his short fiction and major works, Nathaniel Hawthorne, like many romantics, is torn between the eighteenth-century view of an orderly, balanced, static art and universe, on the one hand, and the nineteenth-century conception of a changeful, various art on the other. Hawthorne based his social and psychological values on an organic view of the world, but the world of his art tended to be mechanistic. Johnson argues that Hawthorne found in theology the myths which became vehicles for his exploration of his art.

Author : Leland Schubert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hawthorne, the Artist written by Leland Schubert and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Millicent Bell
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791496228
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hawthorne's View of the Artist written by Millicent Bell and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1962-06-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hawthorne depicted by Professor Bell in these pages will be as much of a surprise to many readers as is his appearance in the rare 1847 daguerreotype reproduced on the book-jacket. "This virtually unknown portrait," says the author, "corresponds with Samuel Goodrich's description, in 1856, of the New England writer: ...'his hair dark and bushy, his eye steel gray, his brow thick, his mouth sarcastic, his whole aspect cold, moody, distrustful....At this period...he had tried his hand in literature and considered himself to have met with a fatal rebuff from the reading world'" (pp. 92-93). His sensitiveness to the predicament of the artist in early-nineteenth-century America—when the rush for power, money, and social prestige relegated creative talent to the dustbin—filled Hawthorne's writings with penetrating statements about the artist's fate in the new scientific, industrial world, statements still applicable today.

Author : Zelda Bronstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prophet of Art written by Zelda Bronstein and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Rudolph Radama Von Abele
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401194718
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of the Artist written by Rudolph Radama Von Abele and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kumiko Mukai
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039113682
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hawthorne's Visual Artists and the Pursuit of a Transatlantic Aesthetics written by Kumiko Mukai and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among Hawthorne's primary themes, the visual arts have usually been regarded as an afterthought and have only been examined to elucidate his own personal philosophy. Hawthorne's own contemporaries derided him for his 'mediocre' aesthetics and that view has been taken as received wisdom up to the present day. This study reexamines Hawthorne's aesthetics, and suggests that he was much more familiar with the art and artists of the time than has previously been acknowledged by critics. He developed his own eclectic and transatlantic view of art, a view which incorporated decorative arts like embroidery, while maintaining a modest estimation of his own talents. This book examines the full range of visual artists whom Hawthorne portrays. It argues that these portrayals illuminate the artist's dilemma of being fettered by New England Puritanism while at the same time being attracted to the richness and depth of both Victorian aesthetics and the artistic sense of Old World Catholicism. The ambiguous destinies of his artist-characters include misunderstandings and disputes, while at the same time they suggest a reconciliation of the conflicting sentiments and transatlantic perspectives of the writer himself.

Author : Elizabeth McCausland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charles W. Hawthorne written by Elizabeth McCausland and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Grace Esther Nichols
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hawthorne's Conscious Use of Art written by Grace Esther Nichols and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard Kopley
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874137699
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Threads of The Scarlet Letter written by Richard Kopley and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Threads of The Scarlet Letter offers new discoveries regarding the origins of Hawthorne's masterpiece, as well as critical interpretations based on these discoveries. Relying on a blend of close reading, biographical analysis, and archival research, this book demonstrates anew the power of traditional scholarship. The Threads of The Scarlet Letter illuminates Hawthorne's transformation of Poe's celebrated tale The Tell-Tale Heart and Lowell's long-neglected poem A Legend of Brittany and, identifying the hitherto-unknown author of the seminal narrative The Salem Belle, investigates Hawthorne's brilliant borrowing from that novel as well. The present volume argues that Hawthorne repeatedly attenuated his sources, but also allowed sufficient detail to permit their recognition. Furthermore, this volume elaborates Hawthorne's reworking of formal traditions in The Scarlet Letter--traditions that importantly clarify the meaning of the whole. The Scarlet Letter is shown to be a complex rendering of man's fall and redemption, and a triumphant assertion of literary vocation. The Threads of The Scarlet Letter includes a useful bibliographical overview of the history of the study of the origins of Hawthorne's greatest work.