Overview

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.

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Author:   Joshua C. Taylor
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Volume:   24
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.771kg
ISBN:  

9780520048881

ISBN 10:   0520048881
Pages:   563
Publication Date:   08 February 1989
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction PART I. BEAUTY AND THE LANGUAGE OF FORM SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, Discourses on Art (I77I) FRANCESCO MILIZIA, The Art of Seeing in the Fine Arts ofDesign According to the Principles of Sulzer and Mengs (I78I) JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID, The Jury of Art (I793) WILLIAM GILPIN, Essay on Picturesque Beauty (I792) ALEXANDER COZENS, A New Method of Assisting the Invention in Drawing Original Compositions of Landscape (1785) EDME-FRANyOIS ANTOINE MIEL, The Dream ofOrestes by Berthon (18I7-1818) QUATREMERE DE QUINCY, On the End oflmitation in the Fine Arts (1823) J. A. D. INGRES, Commentaries on Art PART II. ART AND THE COMMUNITY OF SOULS WILHELM WACKENRODER, Outpourings from the Heart of an Art-Loving Monk (1797) WILLIAM BLAKE, A Descriptive Catalogue of Pictures (1809) Marginalia to Reynolds's Discourses (ca. I8o8) FRANCOIS RENE, VICOMTE DE CHATEAUBRIAND, The Beauties of Christianity (1802) FRIEDRICH OVERBECK, Diaries and Letters (18II, I8I4) ADOLPHE THIERS, On Naivete in the Arts (I822) TOMMASO MINARDI, On the Essential Quality ofltalian Painting from Its Renaissance to the Period of Its Perfection (I834) A.F. RIO, The Poetry of Christian Art (I836) ETIENNE-JEAN DELECLUZE, The Beards of I800 and The Beards ofToday (I835) CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, What Is Romanticism? (I846) EUGENE DELACROIX, journals (I824-I847) PART III. TRUTH TO NATURE AND THE NATURE OF TRUTH PIERRE-HENRI DE VALENCIENNES, Advice to a Student on Painting, Particularly on Landscape (I800) PHILIPP OTTO RUNGE, Letter to Daniel Runge (I802) CARL G. CARUS, Nine Letters on Landscape Painting (I83I) RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays (I8J6-I84I) JOHN RUSKIN, Preface to the Second Edition of Modern Painters (I844) JOHN CONSTABLE, Letters and Notes on Painting (I802- I836) CAMILLE COROT, Letters and Reflections on Painting BENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON and WILLIAM HAZLITT, Articles from the Encyclopaedia Britannica (I8I6) THEOPHILE THORE, To Theodore Rousseau (I844) CHAMPFLEURY, Courbet: The Burial at Omans (I86I) JEAN-FRANCOIS MILLET, Selected Writings (I858-I863) GUSTAVE COURBET, Selected Writings (I855-I870) PART IV. ART AND SOCIETY THEOPHILE THORE, New Tendencies in Art (I857) HIPPOLYTE TAINE, The Philosophy of Art (I865) PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON, Concerning the Principle of Art and Its Social Purpose (I857) WILLIAM MORRIS, The Art of the People (I882) PART V. AN ART OF PURE VISION EMILE ZOLA, Edouard Manet (I867) Art at the Moment (I866) ADRIANO CECIONI, Telemaco Signorini (I884) Vincenzo Cabianca (ca. I884) EMILE BLEMONT, The Impressionists (I876) GEORGES RIVIERE, The Exhibition of the Impressionists (I877) MICHEL-EUGENE CHEVREUL, The Principles of Harmony and Contrast of Colours, and Their Applications to the Arts (I839) CHARLES BLANC, The Grammar of Painting and Engraving (1869) FELIX FENEON, The Impressionists in I886 Neoimpressionism (1887) PART VI. ART AS CREATION VITTORIO IMBRIANI, The Fifth Promotrice Exhibition, Letters IV and V (I868) JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER, Mr. Whistler's Ten O'Clock (1885) CONRAD FIEDLER, Onjudging Works of Visual Art (1876) CHARLES HENRY, The Chromatic Circle (1888) GEORGES SEURAT, Letter to Maurice Beaubourg (1890) GUSTAVE KAHN, Seurat (1891) List of Illustrations and Credits Index

Reviews

An admirable introduction to the period's complicated relationships between art and theory. Avoiding the usual stylistic banners--Classicism, Romanticism, Realism, etc.--Taylor grouped the letters, essays, and lectures into six more general categories, each a response to new artistic freedoms beginning in the last years of the 18th century. . . . Each section is preceded by a thoughtful essay, and each text by a short biography and bibliography. Some texts are fully developed philosophical treatises; others, usually by artists, are sketchy notes. But all are closely linked to the creation and contemplation of actual art. Destined to be a staple. -- Print Collectors Newsletter

Author Information

Joshua C. Taylor was Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago and Director of the National Museum of American Art from 1970 until his death in 1981. James L. Yarnall, formerly of the National Museum of American Art, prepared and edited the manuscript for publication.

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