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Art in theory, 1648-1815 : an anthology of changing ideas / edited by Charles Harrison, Paul Wood and Jason Gaiger.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Oxford : Blackwell, 2000.Description: xxii, 1220 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0631200630
  • 9780631200642
  • 0631200649
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Contents:
I. Establishing the place of art -- Ancients and Moderns -- The academy: Systems and principles -- Form and colour -- The 'je ne sais quoi' -- Practical resources -- II. The profession of art -- Painting as liberal art -- Imagination and understanding -- III. Judgement and the public sphere -- Classical and contemporary -- Aesthetics and the sublime -- The practice of criticism -- IV. A public discourse -- Consolidation and instruction -- Revolution -- V. Nature and human nature -- The human as subject -- Landscape and the picturesque -- VI. Romanticism -- Romantic aesthetics -- Painting and fiction -- VII. Observation and tradition -- Objects of study -- The continuity of symbols.
Summary: Provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of documents on the theory of art from the founding of the French Academy until the end of the Napoleonic Wars.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [1180]-1193) and index.

I. Establishing the place of art -- Ancients and Moderns -- The academy: Systems and principles -- Form and colour -- The 'je ne sais quoi' -- Practical resources -- II. The profession of art -- Painting as liberal art -- Imagination and understanding -- III. Judgement and the public sphere -- Classical and contemporary -- Aesthetics and the sublime -- The practice of criticism -- IV. A public discourse -- Consolidation and instruction -- Revolution -- V. Nature and human nature -- The human as subject -- Landscape and the picturesque -- VI. Romanticism -- Romantic aesthetics -- Painting and fiction -- VII. Observation and tradition -- Objects of study -- The continuity of symbols.

Provides a wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of documents on the theory of art from the founding of the French Academy until the end of the Napoleonic Wars.