Author

Contributions

  • Nagy, Jeff, translator - Contributor
  • Kenny, Dylan, writer of introduction - Contributor

Publication

2018 - David Zwirner Books, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

33,750 words, Guess

Page Count

135 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-101941701787
  • ISBN-139781941701782
  • Library of Congress Control Number2017960020
  • OCLC Control Number1029665912
  • Better World Books9781941701782
and 2 more

Classifications

  • DDC111.85
  • LCCPR5115.P2 P7913 2018
  • LCCN66
and 1 more
  • LCCBH39 .L44 2018

Alternate Titles

  • Gallery diaries.

Description

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.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The psychology of an art writerDavid Zwirner Books2018

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