TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harrison,Charles
AU  - Wood,Paul
AU  - Gaiger,Jason
TI  - Art in theory 1648-1815: an anthology of changing ideas 
SN  - 0631200630
AV  - N6420 .A78 2000
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Oxford, UK, Malden, Mass.
PB  - Blackwell Publishers
KW  - Art, Modern
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - 18th century
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Art
KW  - Early works to 1800
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [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
N2  - 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
ER  -