{"product_id":"9780192893963-the-living-death-of-antiquity-neoclassical-aesthetics","title":"Fitzgerald William (Professor Of Latin Language And Literature Professor Of Latin Language And Literature King's College London) - The Living Death Of Antiquity Neoclassical Aesthetics - Hardcover","description":"Binding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: The Living Death of Antiquity examines the idealization of an antiquity that exhibits in the words of Johann Joachim Winckelmann 'a noble simplicity and quiet grandeur'. Fitzgerald discusses the aesthetics of this strain of neoclassicism as manifested in a range of work in different media and periods focusing on the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In the aftermath of Winckelmann's writing John Flaxman's engraved scenes from the Iliad and the sculptors Antonio Canova and Bertel Thorvaldsen reinterpreted ancient prototypes or invented new ones. Earlier and later versions of this aesthetic in the ancient Greek Anacreontea the French Parnassian poets and Erik Satie's Socrate manifest its character in different media and periods. Looking with a sympathetic eye on the original aspirations of the neoclassical aesthetic and its forward - looking potential Fitzgerald describes how it can tip over into the vacancy or kitsch through which a 'remaindered antiquity lingers in our minds and environments. This book asks how the neoclassical value of simplicity serves to conjure up an epiphanic antiquity and how whiteness in both its literal and its metaphorical forms acts as the 'logo of neoclassical antiquity and functions aesthetically in a variety of media. In the context of the waning of a neoclassically idealized antiquity Fitzgerald describes the new contents produced by its asymptotic approach to meaninglessness and how the antiquity that it imagined both is and is not with us.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: The Living Death Of Antiquity Neoclassical Aesthetics\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Fitzgerald William (Professor Of Latin Language And Literature Professor Of Latin Language And Literature King's College London)\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9780192893963\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 288 Pages, 15 Colour And 27 Black-And-White Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 5\/10\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\nSeries: Classical Presences\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: 20th Century History: C 1900 To C 2000","brand":"Fitzgerald William (Professor Of Latin Language And Literature Professor Of Latin Language And Literature King's College London)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49591865573681,"sku":"IN-G-9780192893963","price":125.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9780192893963-the-living-death-of-antiquity-neoclassical-aesthetics","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}