Art in Theory 1815-1900 An Anthology of Changing Ideas

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

• ISBN13: 9780631200666
• ISBN10: 0631200665
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-03-06
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Art in Theory 1815-1900 provides the most wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of documents ever assembled on nineteenth-century theories of art.

Author Biography

Charles Harrison is Professor of History and Theory of Art at the Open University. He is author of Essays on Art & Language (1991, 2001), Modernism (1997), Conceptual Art and Painting (2001) and Painting the Difference (2005).

Paul Wood is Senior Lecturer in Art History at the Open University. He is the author of Conceptual Art (2002) and has contributed to various publications in the history of modern art.

Jason Gaiger is Lecturer in Art History at the Open University. He is the editor and translator of Herder’s Sculpture: Some Observations on Shape and Form from Pygmalion’s Creative Dream (2002) and has published widely in the field of art history and aesthetics.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

A Note on the Presentation and Editing of Texts

General Introduction

Feeling and Nature

Originality and Genius

Responses to Nature

The Demands of the Present

Utility and Revolution

Art and Nature Moralised

Systems and Techniques

The Individual in the Present

Modernity and Bourgeois Life

Modern Conditions

Realism and Naturalism

Morals and Standards

The Conditions of Art

Temperaments and Techniques

Effects and Impressions

Photography as an Art

Science and Method

Aesthetics and Historical Awareness

Empathy and the Problem of Form

Cultural Criticism

The Independence of Art

The Idea of Modern Art

Modernist Themes: Paris and Beyond

Expression and Colour

Symbolism

Bibliography

Copyright Acknowledgements

Index

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