Papers by Caroline Goldberg Igra
Zeitschrift Fur Kunstgeschichte, 2010
Theorist Georg Lukacs's division of mid 19th-century literature into two categories provides ... more Theorist Georg Lukacs's division of mid 19th-century literature into two categories provides a perfect setting for the examination of depictions of the Parisian cityscape at that time. At a time of daily changes in both the city and its population, depictions of this cityscape proliferated, resulting in an oeuvre that was neither entirely view painting nor depiction of everyday life. Lukacs's theory dividing literature into a narrative category and a descriptive one, published in his 1936 writing Narrate or Describe? offers an alternative framework to understand the original conception of this oeuvre. Lukacs's method was to assess the effect of the author's immediate surroundings on his personal experience and also its consequent exploration within his literary output. Applying this framework to the organization of contemporary cityscape oeuvre reveals the artist's original intention—whether to merely record or to express individual experience—and, more importantly, the very varied character of his oeuvre, thereby enhancing our understanding of Post-Commune life in Paris.
The Journal of Architecture, Nov 1, 2006
Introduction Nineteenth-century Paris witnessed an absolute blossoming of cityscape activity as c... more Introduction Nineteenth-century Paris witnessed an absolute blossoming of cityscape activity as contemporary landscape and genre specialists desperately tried to ‘capture’ their constantly changing environs. A variety of major urban events, including the deconstruction and reconstruction of the city organised by Baron Haussmann during the Second Empire and the physical destruction left behind by the turmoil of the Franco-Prussian War and Parisian Commune, provided endless visual fascination. The novelty of this new theme attracted not only artists but also illustrators, newspaper commentators, novelists and those individuals experimenting with the developing medium of photography. The capacity of these essays on the changing city, represented within various media, to provide valuable documentary material was immediately noted within contemporary circles. Whilst various academic studies have explored the earliest cityscape paintings, as well as contemporary photographic material, the material that was supported by government and ruling officials has yet to be explored.
Konsthistorisk tidskrift, 1998
Subject to the destruction of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune which followed, Paris becam... more Subject to the destruction of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune which followed, Paris became the site of vast projects of physical renovation in the 1870s. Focus on such destruction and restoration, in some ways the dominant characteristics of this city, was ...
Journal of Visual Art Practice, Jul 8, 2008
Victor Burgin's search for meaning within the modern cityscape reflects the attempt to build dept... more Victor Burgin's search for meaning within the modern cityscape reflects the attempt to build depth into a genre that, by definition, is superficial in nature. Capturing both the city and its inhabitants in a symbiotic manner, where one's significance reflects the other, Burgin's visual essays represent the successful development of a form of narrative view painting. For generations cityscapes that focused on both the physical areas of the city and those individuals who daily-occupied those areas, fell into the no-man's land between landscape and genre; neither entirely view painting nor that depicting everyday life. While certain works within this genre suggested pure attempts at topographical documentation, recording what is actually seen and focusing on the permanent, others seemed more like discursive social exercises. This latter type, embracing the local populace and expressing something of the experience of the individual within their environment, rested along the periphery of the classical cityscape. By developing both a convincing feel for the surface, as well as the potential for narrative which naturally exists within any outdoor, peopled scene, Burgin's oeuvre presents a convincing representation of the city. Our ability to appreciate Burgin's contribution to this genre, to discern between works of genre and cityscape and furthermore, to assess the fluidity between the documentation of fact and the exploration of experience, is greatly assisted by the enlistment of a theory developed to explore the same phenomenon within the field of literature. This essay will apply a theory on descriptive and narrative approaches in nineteenth century literature developed by literary historian Georg Lukács (1885-1971) to Burgin's oeuvre. Lukács' distinct separation of the role of the observer from that of the participant, with its concomitant effect on the nature of any realistic work, effectively enhances our comprehension of the deep and insightful portraits of the modern city provided within Burgin's narrative cityscapes.
Konsthistorisk tidskrift, 1999
(1999). Measuring the temper of her time. Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History: Vol. 6... more (1999). Measuring the temper of her time. Konsthistorisk tidskrift/Journal of Art History: Vol. 68, No. 2, pp. 117-125.
Zeitschrift Fur Kunstgeschichte, 2006
The writer examines the work produced by the group of Italian artists that traveled to Paris duri... more The writer examines the work produced by the group of Italian artists that traveled to Paris during the Second Empire. She also investigates the odd set of circumstances in which these artists developed this particular style in another country and through contact with a painterly manner and form that was not part of their hosts'.
Zeitschrift Fur Kunstgeschichte, 2006
The writer examines the work produced by the group of Italian artists that traveled to Paris duri... more The writer examines the work produced by the group of Italian artists that traveled to Paris during the Second Empire. She also investigates the odd set of circumstances in which these artists developed this particular style in another country and through contact with a painterly manner and form that was not part of their hosts'.
Zeitschrift Fur Kunstgeschichte, 2010
Theorist Georg Lukacs's division of mid 19th-century literature into two categories provides ... more Theorist Georg Lukacs's division of mid 19th-century literature into two categories provides a perfect setting for the examination of depictions of the Parisian cityscape at that time. At a time of daily changes in both the city and its population, depictions of this cityscape proliferated, resulting in an oeuvre that was neither entirely view painting nor depiction of everyday life. Lukacs's theory dividing literature into a narrative category and a descriptive one, published in his 1936 writing Narrate or Describe? offers an alternative framework to understand the original conception of this oeuvre. Lukacs's method was to assess the effect of the author's immediate surroundings on his personal experience and also its consequent exploration within his literary output. Applying this framework to the organization of contemporary cityscape oeuvre reveals the artist's original intention—whether to merely record or to express individual experience—and, more important...
Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 1999
... ed. R. Brettell, I984; Reff (as note i). 3 Sylvie Gache-Patin discusses how, in works by the ... more ... ed. R. Brettell, I984; Reff (as note i). 3 Sylvie Gache-Patin discusses how, in works by the French avant-garde, ?the tourist sites, the places marked prominently in each guidebook, are conspi-cuous for their absence.<< Sylvie Gache-Patin ... les Simond, ed. Paris de i8oo a I900, vol ...
Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, 2002
... accuracy, espe-cially regarding those biblical paintings that followed his first expedition 1... more ... accuracy, espe-cially regarding those biblical paintings that followed his first expedition 1854/55 , in her article titled >The artist as ethnographer: Holman Hunt and ... this work as a memorial to Fanny's life and to its uni-versal meaning, rather than as an attempt to con-vince us of ...
Faced with a dearth of artistic opportunity at home and the promise of cultural riches elsewhere,... more Faced with a dearth of artistic opportunity at home and the promise of cultural riches elsewhere, Italian artists flocked to Paris in the mid-nineteenth century. Seeking assimilation and acceptance, they adapted a fashionable painting style that was not French in origin but Spanish, and primarily based on the work of Mariano Fortuny. This revival of eighteenth-century rococo genre painting, popular in, and promoted by, the Second Empire, brought these Italian artists financial success and artistic recognition, as individuals and as representatives of a nation. Giovanni Boldini and Giuseppe de Nittis were among the very few Italian artists to enjoy fame and fortune in Paris. Their practice in the French capital demonstrates how artistic choices and careers could be shaped by the demands of the art market and the conditions for success, and the pressures levied by discussions about the significance of national schools of art.
Victor Burgin's search for meaning within the modern cityscape reflects the attempt to build dept... more Victor Burgin's search for meaning within the modern cityscape reflects the attempt to build depth into a genre that, by definition, is superficial in nature. Capturing both the city and its inhabitants in a symbiotic manner, where one's significance reflects the other, Burgin's visual essays represent the successful development of a form of narrative view painting. For generations cityscapes that focused on both the physical areas of the city and those individuals who daily-occupied those areas, fell into the no-man's land between landscape and genre; neither entirely view painting nor that depicting everyday life. While certain works within this genre suggested pure attempts at topographical documentation, recording what is actually seen and focusing on the permanent, others seemed more like discursive social exercises. This latter type, embracing the local populace and expressing something of the experience of the individual within their environment, rested along the periphery of the classical cityscape. By developing both a convincing feel for the surface, as well as the potential for narrative which naturally exists within any outdoor, peopled scene, Burgin's oeuvre presents a convincing representation of the city. Our ability to appreciate Burgin's contribution to this genre, to discern between works of genre and cityscape and furthermore, to assess the fluidity between the documentation of fact and the exploration of experience, is greatly assisted by the enlistment of a theory developed to explore the same phenomenon within the field of literature. This essay will apply a theory on descriptive and narrative approaches in nineteenth century literature developed by literary historian Georg Lukács (1885–1971) to Burgin's oeuvre. Lukács' distinct separation of the role of the observer from that of the participant, with its concomitant effect on the nature of any realistic work, effectively enhances our comprehension of the deep and insightful portraits of the modern city provided within Burgin's narrative cityscapes. Victor Burgin's search for meaning within the modern cityscape reflects more than a century of determining how to build depth into a genre which, by definition, describes the surface. Capturing both the city and its inhabitants in a symbiotic manner where one's significance reflects the other, Burgin's visual essays represent the successful development of this genre. For generations cityscapes that focused on both the physical areas of the city (its streets, buildings and green areas) and those individuals who daily occupied those areas fell into the no-man's-land between landscape and genre;
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