Nineteenth-century Theories of Art

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University of California Press, 1987 - 563 pages
This 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.
 

Contents

BEAUTY AND THE LANGUAGE OF FORM
5
ART AND THE COMMUNITY OF SOULS
121
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
EUGÈNE DELACROIX Journals 18241847
236
JOHN RUSKIN Preface to the Second Edition
286
JOHN CONSTABLE Letters and Notes on Painting
297
CAMILLE COROT Letters and Reflections on Painting
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

PIERREHENRI DE VALENCIENNES Advice to a Student
246
PHILIPP OTTO RUNGE Letter to Daniel Runge 1802
260
CARL G CARUS Nine Letters on Landscape Painting
270
List of Illustrations and Credits
549
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