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In this book, Caroline van Eck examines how rhetoric and the arts interacted in early modern Europe. She argues that rhetoric, though originally ...
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“As demonstrated in Symbol and Myth, David Pierre Giottin Humbert de Superville’s (1770-1849) pioneering semiotics represented a systematic attempt to arrive at the ...
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The myth of the artist-genius has long had a unique hold on the imagination of Western culture. Iconoclastic, temperamental, and free from the ...
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John Shearman makes a plea for a more engaged reading of art works of the Italian Renaissance, one that will recognize the presuppositions ...
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In the 1790s and early 1800s, the art world experienced two big events: First came the military confiscation of masterpieces from Italy and ...
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Composed in a series of scenes, Aisthesis–Rancière’s definitive statement on the aesthetic takes its reader from Dresden in 1764 to New York in ...
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Throughout the twentieth century, architecture was commonly distinguished from art, where we understand the latter to be the visual arts. Architects and artists ...
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Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto, Luca Carlevarijs, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Francesco Guardi, Hubert Robert—these renowned view painters are perhaps most famous for their expansive canvases ...
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That aesthetics is central to Hegel’s philosophical enterprise is not widely acknowledged, nor has his significant contribution to the discipline been truly appreciated. ...
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First published in 1951, Arnold Hausers work presents an account of the development and meaning of art from its origins in the Stone ...
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