Shortcuts
Please wait while page loads.
Melbourne Art Library . Default .
PageMenu- Main Menu-
Page content

Catalogue Display

Art in theory, 1815-1900 : an anthology of changing ideas / edited by Charles Harrison and Paul Wood with Jason Gaiger.

Art in theory, 1815-1900 : an anthology of changing ideas / edited by Charles Harrison and Paul Wood with Jason Gaiger.
Item Information
Barcode Collection Volume Ref. Status Due Date Res.
20216252 General Borrowing   . Available .  
. Catalogue Record 1583 ItemInfo Beginning of record . Catalogue Record 1583 ItemInfo Top of page .
Catalogue Information
Field name Details
ISBN 0631200657
0631200665
Title Art in theory, 1815-1900 : an anthology of changing ideas / edited by Charles Harrison and Paul Wood with Jason Gaiger.
Published Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1998
copyright 1998
Description xx, 1097 pages ; 23 cm.
Notes Bibliography: p1067-1080. - Includes index.
Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Feeling and nature. Originality and genius -- Responses to nature -- The demands of the present. Utility and revolution -- Art and nature moralized -- Systems and techniques -- Independence and individuality -- Modernity and bourgeois life. Modern conditions -- Realism and naturalism -- Morals and standards -- The conditions of art -- Temperments and techniques. Effects and impressions -- Science and method -- Photography as an art -- Aesthetics and historical awareness. Empathy and the problem of form -- The independence of art -- The idea of modern art. Modernist themes: Paris and beyond -- Painting: expression and colour -- Symbolism.
Summary "Art in Theory 1815-1900 provides the most wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of documents ever assembled on nineteenth-century theories of art."--Amazon.com.
Subjects Art, Modern -- 19th century -- Philosophy
Added Names Harrison, Charles, 1942-2009 editor
Wood, Paul editor
Gaiger, Jason editor
Catalogue Information 1583 Beginning of record . Catalogue Information 1583 Top of page .

Reviews


This item has not been rated.    Add a Review and/or Rating1583
Quick Search