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 |
FRANÇOIS RENÉ VICOMTE DE CHATEAUBRIAND | 153 |
FRIEDRICH OVERBECK Diaries and Letters 1811 1814 | 162 |
ADOLPHE THIERS On Naïveté in the Arts 1822 | 170 |
A F RIO The Poetry of Christian Art 1836 | 195 |
ÉTIENNEJEAN DELÉCLUZE The Beards of 1800 | 206 |
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE What Is Romanticism? 1846 | 220 |
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 |
BENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON and WILLIAM HAZLITT | 310 |
ART AND SOCIETY | 351 |
AN ART OF PURE VISION | 411 |
ART AS CREATION | 487 |
JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER Mr Whistlers Ten | 502 |
EUGÈNE DELACROIX Journals 18241847 | 236 |
PIERREHENRI DE VALENCIENNES Advice to a Student | 246 |
PHILIPP OTTO RUNGE Letter to Daniel Runge 1802 | 260 |
CHARLES HENRY The Chromatic Circle 1888 | 530 |
List of Illustrations and Credits | 549 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Nineteenth-century Theories of Art Volume 24 of California Library Reprint Series Issue 24 of California studies in the history of art, ISSN 0068-5909 |
| Author | Joshua Charles Taylor |
| Editor | Joshua Charles Taylor |
| Contributor | James L. Yarnall |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 1987 |
| ISBN | 0520048873, 9780520048874 |
| Length | 563 pages |
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