A Perfectionist Impulse by Foutch, Ellery E.;

The Art of Stopping Time in the Nineteenth Century

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Kiadó University Of Minnesota Press
Megjelenés dátuma 2026. július 14.

ISBN 9781517916480
Kötéstípus Puhakötés
Terjedelem320 oldal
Méret 254x178x14 mm
Súly 482 g
Nyelv angol
Illusztrációk 104 black and white illustrations with 23 color plates

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XIX. sz.és XX. sz. első fele

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Exploring a collection of wondrous objects to understand the nineteenth-century desire to preserve the perfect moment

Cultural studies of the nineteenth century often categorize their subjects as being motivated by one of two opposing notions: a wholehearted embrace of progress or an antimodernist nostalgia. A Perfectionist Impulse centers a different kind of response to the period's newly intensified awareness of temporality and history: an obsession with preserving perfection. Engaging a diverse set of case studies, Ellery E. Foutch explores the era's desire to forestall the march of time and immortalize the fleeting moment through art and technology.

Beginning with an investigation of artist and naturalist Titian Peale's butterfly illustrations and specimen boxes, Foutch assesses the implications of attempts to fix animal life in the ""perfect state."" She then turns to Harvard's Ware Collection of Glass Flowers, botanical models meticulously crafted to serve as instructional tools but most famous internationally as a spectacle for tourists. Finally, she scrutinizes the period's preoccupation with the fragility of the human body, examining artistic representations of the legendary bodybuilder Eugen Sandow, widely known during his time as the ""Perfect Man."" Highlighting the paradoxical way in which these attempts at preservation ultimately sap the vitality from the organic processes they seek to arrest, Foutch uses these curious objects to unpack a deep set of cultural anxieties around decay and death.

By analyzing objects of mass culture and natural history using methods typically reserved for works of art, A Perfectionist Impulse provides a unique window into how nineteenth-century scientists, technologists, artists, and entertainers rendered a common desire for perfection and immortality. Itself a wondrous collection of attempts to capture the idealized moment, this extensively illustrated book serves as a shining example of our enduring fascination with the ephemeral.

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Contents

Introduction: A Perfectionist Impulse

1. Arresting the Perfect State: Temporality and Metamorphosis in Titian Peale's Butterfly Works

2. Flowers That Never Fade: Harvard's Glass Flowers

3. Embodying Perfection: The Petrification of Eugen Sandow

Conclusion: The Incompatibility of Perfection and Vitality

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index