Art in Theory: 1815-1900 An Anthology of Changing Ideas

by Charles Harrison

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Art in Theory 1815-1900 provides the most wide-ranging and comprehensive collection of documents ever assembled on nineteenth-century theories of art.

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The aim of this book is to provide students of art, art history and aesthetics as well as the interested general reader with a substantial and representative collection of texts, drawn from a wide variety of nineteenth-centur... (show all)y sources.
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(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)All my originality consists therefore in making unreal creatures live humanly, by putting, as much as possible, the logic of the visible at the service of the invisible. [...]

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Art & Design, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Philosophy, History
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709.034Arts & recreationArtsHistory, geographic treatment, biographyBy Period1500-1800-1899 19th Century
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N6450 .A779Fine ArtsVisual artsHistory
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