TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hepburn,Allan
TI  - Enchanted Objects: Visual Art in Contemporary Fiction 
SN  - 9781442641006
AV  - PS374.A76 
U1  - 823/.91409357 
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - American fiction
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Art in literature
KW  - Art objects in literature
KW  - English fiction
KW  - ART / History / Contemporary (1945-)
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Introduction: Art and Objects in Contemporary Fiction --; 2. Details: Vermeer and Specificity --; 3. Ornament: Books in A Case of Curiosities and Salamander --; 4. Fragility: The Case of Utz --; 5 Looking at Ugliness: Pascali’s Island and Stone Virgin --; 6. Conclusion: On Display --; Notes --; Works Cited --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Enchanted Objects investigates the relationship between visual art and contemporary fiction, addressing the problems that arise when paintings, deluxe books, porcelains, or statues are represented in contemporary novels. The distinction between objects and art objects depends on aesthetics. While some objects are authenticated through museum exhibits, others are hidden, broken, neglected, coveted, hoarded, or salvaged.Allan Hepburn asks four broad questions about aesthetics and value: What is a detail in visual art? Is all art ornamental? Does the value of an object increase because it is fragile? What defines ugliness? Contemporary novels, such as Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring, Barry Unsworth's Stone Virgin, and Bruce Chatwin's Utz offer implicit answers to these questions while critiquing museums and the determination to invest objects with value through display. Addressing current debates in museum studies, cultural studies, art history, and literary criticism, Enchanted Objects develops an extensive theory of how contemporary literature engages with and relates to aesthetic objects
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442686397
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