Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics and the Reconstruction of Art
Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics and the Reconstruction of Art

Author: Paul Mattick, Jr

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2008-06-19

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780521066839

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This collection of essays explores the rise of aesthetics as a response to, and as a part of, the reshaping of the arts in modern society. The theories of art developed under the name of 'aesthetics' in the eighteenth century have traditionally been understood as contributions to a field of study in existence since the time of Plato. If art is a practice to be found in all human societies, then the philosophy of art is the search for universal features of that practice, which can be stated in definitions of art and beauty. However, art as we know it - the system of 'fine arts' - is largely peculiar to modern society. Aesthetics, far from being a perennial discipline, emerged in an effort both to understand and to shape this new social practice. These essays share the conviction that aesthetic ideas can be fully understood when seen not only in relation to intellectual and social contexts, but as themselves constructed in history.

A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art
A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art

Author: Linda Walsh

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2016-06-23

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1118475550

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A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art offers an introductory overview of the art, artists, and artistic movements of this exuberant period in European art, and the social, economic, philosophical, and political debates that helped shape them. Covers both artistic developments and critical approaches to the period by leading contemporary scholars Uses an innovative framework to emphasize the roles of tradition, modernity, and hierarchy in the production of artistic works of the period Reveals the practical issues connected with the production, sale, public and private display of art of the period Assesses eighteenth-century art’s contribution to what we now refer to as ‘modernity’ Includes numerous illustrations, and is accompanied by online resources examining art produced outside Europe and its relationship with the West, along with other useful resources

Transformations in Late Eighteenth Century Art
Transformations in Late Eighteenth Century Art

Author: Robert Rosenblum

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1970-10-21

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9780691003023

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The importance of the late 18th century in the genesis of modern art emerges in these four essays on various aspects of the art and architecture of a neglected period.

Ordering of the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England
Ordering of the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England

Author: Lawrence I. Lipking

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-03-08

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 1400870070

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By the end of the eighteenth century, the arts had been surveyed by an unprecedented series of major works on literature, music, and painting of which the author or this book provides a rich and comprehensive analysis. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Making Ideas Visible in the Eighteenth Century
Making Ideas Visible in the Eighteenth Century

Author: Jennifer Milam

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2022-01-14

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1644532336

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"This volume considers how ideas were made visible through the making of art and visual experiences occasioned by reception during the long eighteenth century. Contributors consider the approach taken by individual artists and the material formation of concepts in different contexts by asking new questions of artworks that are implicated by the need to see ideas in painted, sculpted, illustrated, designed, and built forms. The first four essays work with ideas about material objects and identity formation, while the last four essays address the intellectual work that can be expressed through or performed by objects. Making Ideas Visible in the Eighteenth Century thus introduces new visual materials and novel conceptual models into traditional accounts of the intellectual history of the Enlightenment."--Cover page 4.