The Politics of the Picturesque
The Politics of the Picturesque

Author: Stephen Copley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1994-03-10

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0521441137

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Essays on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ways of looking at landscape, in theory and practice.

An Essay on Prints
An Essay on Prints

Author: William Gilpin

Publisher:

Published: 1802

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13:

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"William Gilpin's work is the first English guide to print collecting and one of the first to regard engraving as a fine art. It became a standard bible for the connoisseur and was translated into German, French, and Dutch."--Abebooks website.

Landscape between Ideology and the Aesthetic
Landscape between Ideology and the Aesthetic

Author: Andrew Hemingway

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-11-28

Total Pages: 515

ISBN-13: 9004269010

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At a time of growing interest in relations between Marxism and Romanticism, Andrew Hemingway’s essays on British art and art theory reopen the question of Romantic painting’s ideological functions and, in some cases, its critical purchase. Half the volume exposes the voices of competing class interests in aesthetics and art theory in the tumultuous years of British history between the American Revolution and the 1832 Parliamentary Reform Act. Half offers new perspectives on works by some of the most important landscape painters of the time: John Constable, J.M.W. Turner, John Crome, and John Sell Cotman. Four essays are hitherto unpublished, and the remainder have been updated and in several cases substantially rewritten for this volume.