Art in Theory 1648-1815 An Anthology of Changing Ideas

by Harrison, Charles; Wood, Paul; Gaiger, Jason

• ISBN13: 9780631200642
• ISBN10: 0631200649
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-02-08
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The 240 texts in this volume, each with its own introduction, document transformations in the theory of art from the founding of the French Academy to the emergence of Romanticism.

Author Biography

Charles Harrison is co-editor of Art in Theory 1900 - 1990 (Blackwell, 1992) and of Art in Theory 1815 - 1900 (Blackwell, 1997). He is the author of English Art and Modernism 1900 - 1939 (1994), of Essays on Art & Language, and of Modernism (1997) in the series "Movements in Modern Art". He has lectured widely in England, Europe and the USA and has been visiting Professor in History of Art at the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently Professor of the History and Theory of Art and Staff tutor in Arts at the Open University.

Paul Wood is co-editor of Art in Theory 1900 - 1990 (1992) and of Art in Theory 1815 - 1900 (1998). He has published widely on modern art and art history in a variety of journals and exhibition catalogues. He has edited The Challenge of the Avant Garde (1998) and co-edited Investigating Modern Art (1996) and has contributed to Realism, Rationalism, Surrealism, and Modernism in Dispute (both 1993) and to Critical Terms for Art History (1996). He is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art History at the Open University.

Jason Gaiger is co-editor of Art in Theory 1915 - 1900 (1997). He has published various articles in the field of art history and aesthetics, and has been a visiting lecturer at the Universities of Essex, York and North London. He is currently Lecturer in Art History at the Open University.

Table of Contents

Establishing the Place of Art
Ancients and Moderns	18	(49)
The Academy: Systems and Principles	67	(77)
Form and Colour	144	(61)
The `je ne sais quoi'	205	(34)
Practical Resources	239	(59)
The Profession of Art'
Painting as a Liberal Art	298	(66)
Imagination and Understanding	364	(63)
Judgement and the Public Sphere
Classical and Contemporary	427	(60)
Aesthetics and the Sublime	487	(67)
The Practice of Criticism	554	(80)
A Public Discourse
Consolidation and Instruction	634	(61)
Revolution	695	(48)
Nature and Human Nature
The Human as Subject	743	(76)
Landscape and the Picturesque	819	(80)
Romanticism
Romantic Aesthetics	899	(61)
Painting and Fiction	960	(83)
Observation and Tradition
Objects of Study	1043	(74)
The Continuity of Symbols	1117