Diss.--Köln--Universität, 1990. / Bibliogr. p. 192-208.

Le présent travail de thèse portant sur la vie et l’œuvre de Carl Ludwig Fernow a pour principal objectif de présenter sous un jour nouveau la genèse de ses idées sur la théorie de l’art, aussi à l’égard des aspects socioculturels et anthropologiques de son temps. Pour ce qui est des principaux axes de recherche, on tentera, dans un premier temps, de reconstruire les sources philosophiques ayant nourri sa pensée esthétique et surtout les écrits de Kant, de Schiller et de Winckelmann, tout en opérant une sélection des textes les plus importants. Puis, nous nous demanderons, dans un deuxième temps, dans quelle mesure les monographies d’artistes de Fernow comportent des élans sociocritiques, se dirigeant non seulement contre la politique de formation des académies, mais également contre l’hétéronomie de la production artistique de son temps. Cet aspect sera envisagé sous la forme d’une comparaison de la monographie d’Arioste à celles d’Antonio Canova et d’Asmus Jakob Carstens. La troisième partie sera consacrée à une présentation synthétique des idées esthétiques de Fernow, afin d’évaluer, de façon cohérente et sous un nouveau jour, de l’originalité de sa conception de l’art autonome. / AThe main target of the present study is to reconstruct the genesis of the esthetical ideas of the German art theoretician and writer Carl Ludwig Fernow (1763-1808), whose work and intellectual importance has been recently rediscovered and revalued by several researches. Carl Ludwig Fernow’s name is particularly related to the art discussion of the so called “Weimarian art friends”, the circle of amateurs of beauty who assembled very famous members and personalities such as Goethe, Schiller and Meyer. However, Fernow has always acted in the shadow of these main actors, trying to make him known as an author. Thus, quite a number of his publications and articles in German appeared in German well known revues such as “The Propylees”, “The new Mercury” or “The journal of fashion and luxury” have never been touched a large public, but still would merit a closer look, based on a reexamination of the role he played for the formation of the movement of art’s autonomy, in order to show his art theory, resuming his main ideas and concepts concerning the character, the ideal of beauty and the enthusiasm of the artiste, which he personally considered as the principal components of genuine art expression representing the key to real artistic creation.

<p>The purpose of this paper is to analyse how work by Swedish artist Ylva Ogland (born in 1974) function as an eye-opener for the social marginalisation of people identified with homosexuality, prostitution and drug addiction. Although highly present in reality, these phenomena were historically, and are still today, hidden from view in public discourse. I have focused on the installations Rapture and Silence and Things Seen, and the still-life painting called Xenia. I argue that these artworks carefully represent the above-mentioned marginalised groups, by way of references to comparable motives in the history of art, from neoclassicism in France, to realism and romanticism.</p>

The purpose of this paper is to analyse how work by Swedish artist Ylva Ogland (born in 1974) function as an eye-opener for the social marginalisation of people identified with homosexuality, prostitution and drug addiction. Although highly present in reality, these phenomena were historically, and are still today, hidden from view in public discourse. I have focused on the installations Rapture and Silence and Things Seen, and the still-life painting called Xenia. I argue that these artworks carefully represent the above-mentioned marginalised groups, by way of references to comparable motives in the history of art, from neoclassicism in France, to realism and romanticism.

Nuovi dati e considerazioni sulla biografia e gli scritti di Carlo Bianconi che emergono principalmente dallo spoglio di materiale archivistico inedito. Con questo studio viene ad essere chiarita la fase formativa di Bianconi cresciuto in una casa di bibliofili e collezionisti d’arte. Aggiornato sulle elaborazioni teoriche di Winckelmann e Mengs entrambi conosciuti personalmente, lo vedono progressivamente avvicinarsi e aderire ai modi del classicismo, mediato anche dal rapporto instaurato con Francesco Algarotti, a cui viene in questa sede ridato valore. Uno spiraglio viene aperto sul biennio trascorso a Roma, la frequentazione del cardinale Albani e sul viaggio a Napoli con importanti risvolti per la sua maturazione intellettuale. Seguono i motivi della scelta di Bianconi a segretario dell’Accademia di Brera, le sue iniziative a livello didattico e il rapporto con Carlo di Firmian. Vengono, di volta in volta ricordati i suoi numerosi corrispondenti, la sua produzione figurativa e soprattutto commentati i suoi scritti editi (guide di Bologna e Milano) e inediti (Vitruvio, scritti teorici sull’origine dell’architettura e dell’incisione, orazioni) e riconsiderata la collaborazione all’Enciclopedia Metodica di Pietro Zani. Artista, collezionista, scrittore d’arte e insegnante, immerso in una temperie di matrice razionalista è precoce assertore dei dettami del nuovo gusto per il classico. / New information and analysis about Carlo Bianconi’s biography and writings mainly appear from unpublished archival material bare. This work allows to clarify the education of Bianconi, who grew up in a family of bibliophiles and art collectors. He kept abreast of theoretical development of Winckelmann and Mengs, who personally knew and he gradually moved closer and accepted the models of the classicism that was also mediated by the relationship established with Francesco Algarotti, who is here reevaluate. Regarding his two-year period spent in Rome, the relationship with the Cardinal Albani and moreover his trip to Naples, a glimmer is opened, with important implications for his intellectual maturity. Furthermore, there are: the reason regarding the choice of Bianconi as Secretary of the Academy of Brera, his educational initiatives and the relationship with Carlo di Firmian. From time to time, his many correspondents, his figurative works of art and especially his published writings were commented (for example the guide of Bologna and Milan) and his unpublished writings (such as Vitruvius, theoretical writings on the origin of architecture and engraving, orations) are remembered and also the collaboration with the Enciclopedia Metodica of Pietro Zani is reconsidered. Artist, collector, art writer and teacher, immersed in a climate of a Rationalism, he is a early supporter of the new taste for the classic.