Discernment or Devotion: Egypt and Sculptural Politics in Eighteenth-Century France

IF 0.3 2区 艺术学 0 ART
Elizabeth Saari Browne
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Although French fascination with Egyptian material culture is often dated to the nineteenth century, ancient Egyptian gems, architectural fragments, and small statues were already avidly collected in the eighteenth century. For some, the display and close study of small Egyptian works of art in private cabinets served to develop discernment, the formal properties illuminating historical moeurs, techniques, and artistic exchanges otherwise unknowable from then-untranslated hieroglyphs. Others, however, dismissed these objects as fetishes and idols, produced under the control of priests and despots for ritual devotion. Escalating prejudices in Europe toward the peoples and objects of Africa was fundamental to this latter attitude. Yet, the bigoted language also illuminates the fraught boundaries perceived between connoisseurship and idolatry, both predicated on the focused attention toward material objects. This essay addresses the implication of ancient Egyptian sculpture in these period debates, and demonstrates the impact of these biases on art histories of sculpture.

执着还是奉献:埃及与18世纪法国的雕塑政治
尽管法国人对埃及物质文化的迷恋通常可以追溯到19世纪,但古埃及的宝石、建筑碎片和小雕像在18世纪就已经被大量收藏。对一些人来说,在私人橱柜中展示和仔细研究埃及的小型艺术品有助于发展辨别力,这种形式特征照亮了历史的动机、技术和艺术交流,而这些都是当时未经翻译的象形文字所未知的。然而,其他人则将这些物品视为恋物癖和偶像,是在牧师和暴君的控制下为仪式奉献而产生的。欧洲对非洲人民和目标的偏见不断升级,这是后一种态度的根本原因。然而,偏执的语言也阐明了鉴赏家和偶像崇拜之间令人担忧的界限,两者都是基于对物质对象的集中关注。本文论述了古埃及雕塑在这些时期争论中的含义,并展示了这些偏见对雕塑艺术史的影响。
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期刊介绍: Art History is a refereed journal that publishes essays and reviews on all aspects, areas and periods of the history of art, from a diversity of perspectives. Founded in 1978, it has established an international reputation for publishing innovative essays at the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship, whether on earlier or more recent periods. At the forefront of scholarly enquiry, Art History is opening up the discipline to new developments and to interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approaches.
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