""Desire and Excess" is one of the most exciting and sophisticated
books I have read for some time. It is capaciously learned,
sensitively researched, and wonderfully graceful and witty. By
reconsidering the institutions and aesthetics responsible for the
culture of the museum in modernity, it offers a new history of
art-historical discourse."--Isobel Armstrong, Birkbeck College,
London
""Desire and Excess" tells about the time a dazzling company of
poets got lost inside the Louvre, and only got out once they had
together created the giant figure of the Artist. Jonah Siegel's
brilliance is continually breathtaking, so it's lucky that he has
placed such solid ground beneath our feet by his luxurious,
intricately wrought scholarship."--Elaine Scarry, author of "On
Beauty and Being Just"
"A timely book on the relationship of art and experience to the
hallowed sanctuaries of museum collections. Jonah Siegel is right
on target in dealing with this hugely important issue. I can only
admire the vast range of themes and the quiet display of learning
so apparent in this text. The book kept me constantly alert and
informed."--Robert Rosenblum, New York University
"This ambitious and fascinating work traces the relations
between the development of the museum, the history of taste, and
the figure of the artist/author in nineteenth-century England. Here
Jonah Siegel reads the long collapse of neoclassicism as a
productive crisis in the modern conception of originality. His
argument is remarkably rich, subtle, learned, and
provocative."--Ian Duncan, University of Oregon
""Desire and Excess" marks the emergence of a powerful and
distinctive critical sensibility, remarkable both for itsrange of
erudition and for the extraordinary quality of reflection brought
to bear on the works explored here. Jonah Siegel mingles exacting
close analysis and broad, confident historical and cultural
reference in a manner that is almost unfailingly persuasive. The
book will appeal to readers interested in the intellectual,
artistic, literary, and cultural histories of Britain from the
eighteenth through twentieth centuries, as well as to those engaged
in postmodern critical reflection on art institutions and artistic
agency."--James Eli Adams, Indiana University
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