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Nineteenth-century theories of art

A collection of writings that 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.
Print Book, English, ©1987
University of California Press, Berkeley, ©1987
History
xii, 563 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
9780520048874, 9780520048881, 0520048873, 0520048881
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Discourses on art (1771) / Sir Joshua Reynolds
The art of seeing in the fine arts of design according to the principles of Sulzer and Mengs (1781) / Francesco Milizia
The jury of art (1793) / Jacques-Louis David
Essay on picturesque beauty (1792) / William Gilpin
A new method of assisting the invention in drawing original compositions of landscape (1785) / Alexander Cozens
The dreams of Orestes by Berthon (1817-1818) / Edmé-François Antoine Miel
On the end of imitation in the fine of Arts (1823) / Quatremère de Quincy
Commentaries on art / J.A.D. Ingres
Outpourings from the heart of an art-loving monk (1797) / Wilhelm Wackenroder
A descriptive cataogue of pictures (1809) / William Blake
Marginalia to Reynold's discourses (ca. 1808) / William Blake
The beauties of Christianity (1802) / François René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand
Diaries and letters (1811, 1814) / Friedrich Overbeck
On Naïveté in the arts (1822) / Adolphe Thiers
On the essential quality of Italian painting from its Renaissance to the period of its perfection (1834) / Tommaso Minardi
The poetry of Christian art (1836) / A.F. Rio. "The Beards" of 1800 and "The Beards" of today (1835) / Étienne-Jean Delécluze
What is Romanticism? (1846) / Charles Baudelaire
Journals (1824-1847) / Eugène Delacroix
Advice to a student on painting, particularly on landscape (1800) / Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes
Letter to Daniel Runge (1802) / Philipp O. Runge
Nine letters on landscape painting (1831) / Carl G. Carus
Essays (1836-1841) / Ralph W. Emerson
Preface to the second edition of Modern painters (1844) / John Ruskin
Letters and notes on painting (1802-1836) / John Constable
Letters and reflections on painting / Camille Corot
Articles from the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1816) / Benjamin R. Haydon & William Hazlitt
To Théodore Rousseau (1844) / Théophile Thoré
Courbet : The burial at Ornans (1861) / Champfleury
Selected writings (1858-1863) / Jean-François Millet
Selected Writings (1855-1870) / Gustave Courbet
New tendencies in art (1857) / Théophile Thoré
The philosophy of art (1865) / Hippolyte Taine
Concerning the principle of art and its social purpose (1857) / Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The art of the people (1882) / William Morris
Édouard Manet (1867) / Émile Zola. Art at the moment (1866) / Émile Zola
Telemaco Signorini (1884) / Adriano Cecioni
Vincenzo Cabianca (ca. 1884) / Adriano Cecioni
The Impressionists (1876) / Émile Blémont
The exhibition of the Impressionists (1877) / Georges Rivière
The principles of harmony and contrast of colours, and their applications to the arts (1839) / Michel-Eugène Chevreul
The grammar of painting and engraving (1869) / Charles Blanc
The Impressionists in 1886 / Félix Fénéon
Neoimpressionism (1887) / Félix Fénéon
The fifth Promotrice exhibition, letters IV & V (1868) / Vittorio Imbriani
Mr. Whistler's "Ten O'Clock" (1885) / James M. Whistler
On judging works of visual art (1876) / Conrad Fiedler
The chromatic circle (1888) / Charles Henry
Letter to Maurice Beaubourg (1890) / Georges Seurat
Seurat (1891) / Gustave Kahn