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Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792)

Author of Discourses on Art

40+ Works 454 Members 4 Reviews 1 Favorited

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Works by Sir Joshua Reynolds

Discourses on Art (1959) 236 copies, 1 review
Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723-1792 (1985) 62 copies, 1 review
Portraits (1979) 29 copies, 1 review
Seven Discourses on Art (1769) 14 copies, 1 review
Reynolds in Canada (1988) 2 copies
[Paintings] 1 copy

Associated Works

Critical Theory Since Plato (1971) — Contributor, some editions — 434 copies, 1 review
Eighteenth-Century English Literature (1969) — Author — 193 copies, 1 review
A Documentary History of Art, Volume 2 (1982) — Contributor — 168 copies, 3 reviews

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4 reviews
Though he [Johnson] had no taste for painting, he admired much the manner in which Sir Joshua Reynolds treated of his art, in his Discourses to the Royal Academy. He observed one day of a passage in them, ‘I think I might as well have said this myself:’ and once when Mr. Langton was sitting by him, he read one of them very eagerly, and expressed himself thus:—‘Very well, Master Reynolds; very well, indeed. But it will not be understood.’ --quoted by Boswell in Life of Johnson
There are the followers of JR; and there are followers of the old mystic Wm. Blake.
"classic statement of the ideas that dominated European art for three centuries"

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