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Lubar, Robert S.

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Works: 28 works in 54 publications in 6 languages and 1,309 library holdings
Roles: Author of introduction, Editor
Classifications: n7113.d3, 759.6
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5 editions published between and 2003 in English and held by 664 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 104 libraries worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 30 libraries worldwide
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3 editions published in in Spanish and held by 20 libraries worldwide
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9 editions published between and 1991 in English and held by 18 libraries worldwide
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1 edition published in in French and held by 14 libraries worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 13 libraries worldwide
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1 edition published in in French and held by 7 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published between and 1998 in Spanish and Italian and held by 4 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 3 libraries worldwide
This dissertation examines the condition of allegory in the late nineteenth-century as exemplified by the case of monumental sculpture: state-sponsored works commissioned for public sites mainly in Paris. Manifestly political, it is a field distinguished also by the predominance of allegorical subjects. This study spans three regimes: the Second Republic (1848--52), Second Empire (1852--70), and the first decade of the Third Republic (1870--1940), bracketed by two major state-sponsored competitions, for a new figure of the Republic in 1848, and a monument to the defense of Paris in 1879. Beginning in the 1840s with the romantic critique of allegory, in literature as well as the visual arts, this dissertation concludes under the Third Republic, with the birth of Symbolism around 1880. Unlike the discipline of art history, where the nineteenth century's resistance to allegory has remained largely unexamined, in the field of literary theory the Romantic critique of allegory (and accompanying valorization of the symbol) has been the object of sustained historical and philosophical scrutiny, both in terms of its origins and influence. Of special significance in this regard is the figure of Walter Benjamin, whose theory of allegory would mark a turning-point in its modern critical fortunes. It is the underlying purpose of this dissertation---in the footsteps of the generations of literary critics who have followed Benjamin's lead in challenging the Romantic, and post-Romantic, definition of allegory---to call attention to this enduring prejudice in the history of art; one that has occluded from the discourse of Modernism the fraught figure of allegory, even as it embodies the very tensions at the heart of this late nineteenth-century crisis of representation.
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1 edition published in in English and held by 3 libraries worldwide
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1 edition published in in Catalan and held by 3 libraries worldwide
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1 edition published in in Catalan and held by 2 libraries worldwide
 
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