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It was in The Germ (1850), the first British magazine with an
aesthetic manifesto, that the interart theories of the
Pre-Raphaelites took shape. The thirteen young contributors
advocated an ethical approach to art while at the same time
acknowledging self-referentiality and meta-discoursivity. They
defined the specificity of each mode of artistic expression while
exploring the dynamic between word and image, moving from realism
towards Symbolism and even anticipating Surrealism. The Aesthetes
and Decadents were fascinated; the Modernists felt challenged.
Later in the twentieth century a succession of reappraisals
transformed the Pre-Raphaelites into a well-marketed group of
eccentrics, but neglected the complexity of their cross-cultural,
verbal/visual art. This study aims to explain why claims about the
autonomy and interrelatedness of the arts, expressed in the form of
a provocative monthly journal, proved so influential as to be a
source of inspiration for the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, The
Century Guild Hobby Horse, The Yellow Book, The Savoy, and even for
Modernist periodicals. Often regarded as a juvenile venture, The
Germ was in fact a laboratory for expressive forms, themes, and
ideas that had an enormous impact on the history of British
culture.
Mario Praz: Voice Centre Stage is the first collection of essays in
English on Italian writer Mario Praz (1896-1982), a central figure
of twentieth-century culture and international literary relations.
Praz's formidable oeuvre spanned six decades and covered such
topics as comparative literature, interior design, history of art
and culture, collecting, interart and intermedial studies,
translation, journalism, travelling and autobiography. His colossal
erudition encompassed an enthusiasm for the eccentric, the
interstitial, the erotic and the macabre. This book, based on
pluri- and interdisciplinary critical approaches by a variety of
specialists, sheds ample light on an author who still awaits full
appreciation as a unique cross-cultural 'voice inside the scene' of
literature and art.
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