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Imaginary Portraits: With the Child in the House and Gaston de Latour (Aesthetics Today) - Softcover
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Out of print for decades, the enchanting classics in this new edition will be welcomed by teachers and students of literature, art history, and aesthetics. Written by an esteemed nineteenth-century scholar of Renaissance art and literature, the "imaginary portraits" are fictionalized accounts of historic figures, with the search for a new aesthetic as the common thread. The Child in the House, out of print since 1904, appears in this treasured new edition, along with Gaston de Latour, an unfinished novel.
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Walter Pater (1839-1894) was an essayist, critic, and Oxford don. Renowned for his study of aesthetic poetry and his essays on the history of the Renaissance, he was a central figure in the Aesthetic movement that swept England at the end of the nineteenth century. Bill Beckley is an artist who has exhibited widely in America and Europe since l970. His works are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum, and the Guggenheim in New York; The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston; and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He teaches Semiotics and Film at the School of Visual Arts in New York and is the editor for the Aesthetics Today series from Allworth Press.
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"The pleasures of reading Pater are intense, to me, but the importance of Pater transcends those pleasures, and finally is quite out of proportion to Pater's literary achievement, fairly large as that was. . . .'Imaginary Portraits,' in Pater's sense, are an almost indescribable genre. It may be best to call them what Yeats called his Paterian stories, "Mythologies," or "Romantic Mythologies." Or, more commonly, they could be called simply "reveries". . . .What is most meaningful to Pater are those voices coming from low walls, green mounds, tombstones." -- Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University
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- PublisherAllworth Press
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 1880559773
- ISBN 13 9781880559772
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages240
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