MacLeod, Catriona
Fugitive Objects

Sculpture and Literature in the German Nineteenth Century.

MacLeod examines the question of why sculpture is both intensively discussed and yet rendered immaterial in German literature. She focuses on three forms of disappearance: sculpture’s vanishing as a legitimate art form at the beginning of the nineteenth century in German aesthetics, statues’ migration from the domain of high art into mass reproduction and popular culture, and sculpture’s dislodging and relocation into literary discourse. Content: The matter with sculpture: A. W. Schlegel and Hegel; Biting back: Sculpture and the wounds of language in Clemens Brentano's Godwi; The statue as volatile object in Romanticism: Dislodging sculpture; Foreign bodies: Of sculpture and cacti in Adalbert Stifter's Der Nachsommer; Plastic poses: Tableau vivant and narrative suspension in Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus im Pelz. XII,252 Seiten mit 27 Abb., broschiert (Northwestern University Press 2014) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear