Книга: Lee Vernon «The Psychology of an Art Writer»

The Psychology of an Art Writer

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Vernon Lee - a pseudonym of Violet Paget (1856-1935) - is the most important female aesthetician to come out of 19th-century England. Though she was widely known for her supernatural fictions, Lee never gained the recognition she so clearly deserved for her contributions in the fields of aesthetics, philosophy of empathy and art criticism. An early follower of Walter Pater, she wrote with an extreme attention to her own responses to artworks, and a level of psychological sensitivity rarely seen in any aesthetic writing. Today, she is largely understudied and rarely read, her aesthetic writings long out of print. Now, David Zwirner Books reintroduces her writing through the first-ever English publication of The Psychology of an Art Writer (1903) along with selections from her groundbreaking Gallery Diaries (1901-4), breathtaking accounts of Lee's own experiences with the great paintings and sculptures she traveled to see. Ranging from assessments of the way mood affects our ability to appreciate art to descriptions of powerful personal experiences with artworks, these writings provide profound insights into the fields of psychology and aesthetics.

Издательство: "David Zwirner" (2018)

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Lee, Vernon

▪ English essayist
pseudonym of  Violet Paget 
born Oct. 14, 1856, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
died Feb. 13, 1935, San Gervasio Bresciano, Italy

      English essayist and novelist who is best known for her works on aesthetics.

      Paget was born to cosmopolitan and peripatetic intellectuals who in 1873 settled their family in Florence. In 1878 she determined to publish under a masculine pseudonym in order to be taken seriously, and in 1880 her collection of essays that had originally appeared in Fraser's Magazine was published under the name by which she came to be known both personally and professionally. This work, Studies of the Eighteenth Century in Italy, brought to life for English readers the hitherto unexplored world of poet-librettist Pietro Metastasio (Metastasio, Pietro) and dramatists Carlo Goldoni (Goldoni, Carlo) and Carlo Gozzi (Gozzi, Carlo, Conte). Her collections of essays Belcaro (1881), a work on aesthetics, and Euphorion (1884), which includes essays on William Shakespeare (Shakespeare, William) and Renaissance Italy, reveal her scholarship, always enlivened by wit and imagination. In her three-volume novel Miss Brown (1884), she brutally caricatures English aesthetic coteries (especially the Pre-Raphaelites (Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood)).

      Lee wrote more than 30 books, including a play, Ariadne in Mantua (1903), and several collections of stories, among them Pope Jacynth and Other Fantastic Tales (1904). Her powerful allegorical drama Satan the Waster (1920) reveals her ardent pacificism.

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