| Nineteenth-Century Theories of Art: Volume 24 Contributor(s): Taylor, Joshua C. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0520048881 ISBN-13: 9780520048881 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $38.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1989 Annotation: A theory of art may be many things, from a complex philosophical treatise to a few basic observations jotted down by an artist that illumine the direction of his work. The late eighteenth-and nineteenth-century writings gathered here were selected not because they completely formulate systems governing art, but because they were closely allied with artists responded, and some were composed by critics or historians who were in close touch with the artists and sought to explain their artistic goals. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Criticism & Theory - Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) |
| Dewey: 701.180 |
| LCCN: 86007054 |
| Series: California Studies in the History of Art |
| Physical Information: 1.37" H x 5.96" W x 9.14" (1.66 lbs) 563 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |