Local Colour - A Travelling Concept (Paperback, New edition)

Local colour is an undertheorized notion. Although the expression itself is nowadays used in everyday speech in both French and English, its 'domestication' only further highlights the need for a clarifying study of this concept, which has come to be crucial in aesthetic debates. From the seventeenth-century rift between 'Poussinistes' and 'Rubenistes', to the genesis of Romanticist aesthetic theories in early nineteenth-century France, to the North American regionalist prose of the Local colour movement; from Roger de Piles, to Benjamin Constant, Victor Hugo, Prosper Merimee, and Hamlin Garland, this book sets out to map for the first time couleur locale's three-hundred-year journey across centuries, languages and genres. In addition to proposing a genealogy of the concept and the paths of its semantic evolution, it also initiates a reflection on the factors that could have prompted the mobility of the term across cultures, art forms and their metalanguages.

General

Imprint:	Verlag Peter Lang
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Romanticism and After in France/le Romantisme et Apres en France, 13
Release date:	September 2009
First published:	2009
Authors:	Vladimir Kapor
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	258
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-911415-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Painting & paintings > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century
LSN:	3-03-911415-8
Barcode:	9783039114153

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