Nineteenth-Century Theories of ArtThis unique and extraordinarily rich collection of writings offers a thematic approach to understanding the various theories of art that illumined the direction of nineteenth-century artists as diverse as Tommaso Minardi and Georges Seurat. It is significant that during the nineteenth century most artists felt compelled to found their artistic practice on a consciously established premise. |
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Contents
BEAUTY AND THE LANGUAGE OF FORM | 5 |
ART AND THE COMMUNITY OF SOULS | 121 |
TRUTH TO NATURE AND THE NATURE | 241 |
PHILIPP OTTO RUNGE Letter to Daniel Runge 1802 | 260 |
CARL G CARUS Nine Letters on Landscape Painting | 270 |
John RUskIN Preface to the Second Edition | 286 |
John constable Letters and Notes on Painting | 297 |
18oz1836 | 307 |
ART AND SOCIETY | 351 |
AN ART OF PURE VISION | 411 |
ART AS CREATION | 487 |
JAMES MCNEILL whistleR Mr Whistlers Ten | 502 |
CHARLES HENRY The Chromatic Circle 1888 | 530 |
List of Illustrations and Credits | 549 |
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Common terms and phrases
admire aesthetic Agamemnon ancient antique appear artist beauty become blot blue called Camille Pissarro century character chiaroscuro Christian Claude Lorrain color colorist composition concept contrast Courbet critics Delacroix drawing Édouard Manet effect Eugène Delacroix execution exhibition exist expression feeling figures French genius Georges Seurat give Greek Gustave Courbet harmony human idea ideal imagination imitation impression Ingres invention Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Jean-François Millet kind landscape less light look macchia manner matter means Michelangelo Minardi mind modern moral nature Neoimpressionism never objects observation oil on canvas orange painter painting Paris Paul Veronese perception perfection Phidias Philipp Otto Runge picture picturesque pleasure poet poetry portrait principles produced qualities Raphael Romanticism Rome Salon sculpture sense sentiment soul spirit style sublime talent taste theory things thought tion Titian tone translated true truth understand visual yellow
Bibliographic information
| Title | Nineteenth-Century Theories of Art Issue 24 of California Studies in the History of Art, ISSN 0068-5909 |
| Author | Joshua C. Taylor |
| Editor | Joshua C. Taylor |
| Compiled by | Joshua C. Taylor |
| Contributor | James L. Yarnall |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 1987 |
| ISBN | 0520048881, 9780520048881 |
| Length | 563 pages |
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