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A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Walsh, Linda
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2016.
Subjects:
Art, European > Historiography.
Art, European > 18th century > Study and teaching.
Electronic books.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9781118475553
1118475550
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Acknowledgments
  • Companion Website
  • Introduction
  • The Question of Style
  • Modernity and the Public Sphere
  • Tradition and Modernity in Art Outside Europe
  • Scope and Structure
  • Further Reading
  • 1 Institutional Hierarchies
  • Establishing a Fine Art Tradition: The Spread of Academies
  • Academic Hierarchies: Institutions, Theory and Gender
  • A Hierarchy of Skills
  • The Art-Craft Divide: Unifying and Divisive Developments
  • The Decline of the Guilds: Defining the "Artist"
  • Questions of Modernity
  • Further Reading
  • 2 Genres and Contested Hierarchies
  • History painting
  • Portraiture
  • Genre Painting
  • Landscape
  • Still Life
  • Questions of Modernity
  • Further Reading
  • 3 Markets, Publics, Expert Opinions
  • Markets and Patrons
  • The Print Market
  • Exhibitions, Collectors, Museums and their Visitors
  • A Public for Art
  • Painting for an Imperial Public
  • Questions of Modernity
  • Further Reading
  • 4 Taste, Criticism and Journalism
  • Identifying Beauty and Good Taste
  • Journalism
  • Questions of Modernity
  • Further Reading
  • 5 Seeking a Moral Order
  • Art as a School of Morals
  • Ways of Looking, Ways of Seeing
  • Viewing, Consumerism and Luxury
  • Exploring Moral Boundaries: Orientalism, the Senses and the Imagination
  • Moral Feeling, Moral Looking
  • Questions of Modernity
  • Further Reading
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index
  • End User License Agreement

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