Jean Arnold, Victorian Jewelry, Identity, and the Novel: Prisms of Culture
Jewellery has the remarkable property of assimilating and absorbing values from its surrounding culture. Works of art do this too. A painting, for example, like a gemstone, is valueless in itself, and attains value through properties that we accord to it. The difference between a painting and a gem...
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| Publicado no: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cve, |
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| Formato: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens
2014
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| Acesso em linha: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Resumo: | Jewellery has the remarkable property of assimilating and absorbing values from its surrounding culture. Works of art do this too. A painting, for example, like a gemstone, is valueless in itself, and attains value through properties that we accord to it. The difference between a painting and a gem, however, is that a painting is expressive in ways in which a gem is not. A painting is loaded with significance by its creator, and though its audience may interpret that significance in differen... |
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