دانلود کتاب Collecting and appreciating : Henry James and the transformation of aesthetics in the age of consumption

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Content: Appreciation in the age of consumption. The rise of consumption as an aesthetic revolution
Collecting as a modern form of art appreciation
The problem of art consumption for John Ruskin --
Henry James's early response to collecting. Henry James and the Ruskinian picturesque
Picturesque relics vs. renovated collectibles --
Between aestheticism and naturalism. The aesthete and the naturalist as cultural commodifiers
The impossible painting and the ugly statuettes --
The princess Casamassima. Unmasking the naturalist collector: Zola, Turgenev and James
A youth upon whom nothing was lost
The last sacrifice
The extending of one's horizon --
Henry James's aesthetics of desire. Georg Simmel's "value-increasing process"
The ambiguities of a fin-de-siecle connoisseur: Bernard Berenson
The most exquisite economy: Henry James's aesthetics of desire
Appreciation and interpretation --
The spoils of Poynton. The buried bone and the tiny nuggets
A hindrance in the quality of the material
The method at the heart of madness --
The golden bowl. Rounding off the corners of life
Small shining diamonds out of the sweepings of an ordered house
The steel hoop and the silken rope.