Nineteenth-century Theories of ArtA 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. |
Contents
BEAUTY AND THE LANGUAGE OF FORM | 5 |
ART AND THE COMMUNITY OF SOULS | 121 |
Painting from Its Renaissance to the Period of | 173 |
TRUTH ΤΟ NATURE AND THE NATURE | 237 |
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 |
JOHN RUSKIN Preface to the Second Edition | 286 |
BENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON and WILLIAM HAZLITT | 310 |
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 |
List of Illustrations and Credits | 549 |
JOHN CONSTABLE Letters and Notes on Painting | 297 |
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