{"product_id":"9781442698451","title":"Enchanted Objects: Visual Art in Contemporary Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEnchanted Objects\u003c\/em\u003e investigates the relationship between visual art and contemporary fiction, addressing the problems that arise when paintings, deluxe books, porcelains, or statues are represented in contemporary novels. The distinction between objects and art objects depends on aesthetics. While some objects are authenticated through museum exhibits, others are hidden, broken, neglected, coveted, hoarded, or salvaged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAllan Hepburn asks four broad questions about aesthetics and value: What is a detail in visual art? Is all art ornamental? Does the value of an object increase because it is fragile? What defines ugliness? Contemporary novels, such as Tracy Chevalier's \u003cem\u003eGirl with a Pearl Earring\u003c\/em\u003e, Barry Unsworth's \u003cem\u003eStone Virgin\u003c\/em\u003e, and Bruce Chatwin's \u003cem\u003eUtz\u003c\/em\u003e offer implicit answers to these questions while critiquing museums and the determination to invest objects with value through display. Addressing current debates in museum studies, cultural studies, art history, and literary criticism, \u003cem\u003eEnchanted Objects\u003c\/em\u003e develops an extensive theory of how contemporary literature engages with and relates to aesthetic objects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128365269232,"sku":"9781442698451","price":73.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781442698451_p0.jpg?v=1763812178","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781442698451","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}