"Life is Movement": Vernon Lee and Sculpture
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"Life is Movement": Vernon Lee and Sculpture. / Østermark-Johansen, Lene.
I: Word & Image, Bind 34, Nr. 1, 28.02.2018, s. 64-72.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - "Life is Movement": Vernon Lee and Sculpture
AU - Østermark-Johansen, Lene
PY - 2018/2/28
Y1 - 2018/2/28
N2 - How do living, breathing human bodies respond to the inert bodies of sculpture? This article examines some of the art-theoretical and psychological writings of Violet Paget (‘Vernon Lee’) and Clementina Anstruther-Thomson of the 1880s and 1890s in an attempt to map the evolution of their formalist art criticism. Engaging with the eighteenth-century ghosts of Johann Joachim Winckelmann and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Lee and Anstruther-Thomson created their very own exploration of art forms evolving in space and in time. Questioning how our reading of literature affects our reading of sculpture, and observing their own mental and physical responses to the encounter with three-dimensional artworks, their binocular gaze and critical collaboration resulted in innovative theories of empathy and intermediality. This article traces their discussions of the interrelationship between literature and sculpture from Lee’s early essays in Belcaro: Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions (1881) to the late collaborative volume Art and Man (1924).
AB - How do living, breathing human bodies respond to the inert bodies of sculpture? This article examines some of the art-theoretical and psychological writings of Violet Paget (‘Vernon Lee’) and Clementina Anstruther-Thomson of the 1880s and 1890s in an attempt to map the evolution of their formalist art criticism. Engaging with the eighteenth-century ghosts of Johann Joachim Winckelmann and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Lee and Anstruther-Thomson created their very own exploration of art forms evolving in space and in time. Questioning how our reading of literature affects our reading of sculpture, and observing their own mental and physical responses to the encounter with three-dimensional artworks, their binocular gaze and critical collaboration resulted in innovative theories of empathy and intermediality. This article traces their discussions of the interrelationship between literature and sculpture from Lee’s early essays in Belcaro: Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions (1881) to the late collaborative volume Art and Man (1924).
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Vernon Lee
KW - Kit Anstruther-Thomson
KW - formalism
KW - non finito
KW - empathy
KW - art criticism
KW - Renaissance sculpture
KW - Ancient sculpture
KW - tomb sculpture
U2 - 10.1080/02666286.2017.1333881
DO - 10.1080/02666286.2017.1333881
M3 - Journal article
VL - 34
SP - 64
EP - 72
JO - Word and Image
JF - Word and Image
SN - 0266-6286
IS - 1
ER -
ID: 191585400