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Informationen zum Autor Joshua C. Taylor was Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago and Director of the National Museum of American Art from 1970 until his death in 1981. James L. Yarnall! formerly of the National Museum of American Art! prepared and edited the manuscript for publication. Klappentext This unique and extraordinarily rich collection of writings offers a thematic approach to understanding the various theories of art that illumined the direction of nineteenth-century artists as diverse as Tommaso Minardi and Georges Seurat. It is significant that during the nineteenth century most artists felt compelled to found their artistic practice on a consciously established premise. Zusammenfassung A collection of writings that offers a thematic approach to understanding the various theories of art that illumined the direction of nineteenth-century artists as diverse as Tommaso Minardi and Georges Seurat. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction PART I. BEAUTY AND THE LANGUAGE OF FORM SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, Discourses on Art (I77I) FRANCESCO MILIZIA, The Art of Seeing in the Fine Arts ofDesign According to the Principles of Sulzer and Mengs (I78I) JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID, The Jury of Art (I793) WILLIAM GILPIN, Essay on Picturesque Beauty (I792) ALEXANDER COZENS, A New Method of Assisting the Invention in Drawing Original Compositions of Landscape (1785) EDME-FRANyOIS ANTOINE MIEL, The Dream ofOrestes by Berthon (18I7-1818) QUATREMERE DE QUINCY, On the End oflmitation in the Fine Arts (1823) J. A. D. INGRES, Commentaries on Art PART II. ART AND THE COMMUNITY OF SOULS WILHELM WACKENRODER, Outpourings from the Heart of an Art-Loving Monk (1797) WILLIAM BLAKE, A Descriptive Catalogue of Pictures (1809) Marginalia to Reynolds's Discourses (ca. I8o8) FRANCOIS RENE, VICOMTE DE CHATEAUBRIAND, The Beauties of Christianity (1802) FRIEDRICH OVERBECK, Diaries and Letters (18II, I8I4) ADOLPHE THIERS, On Naivete in the Arts (I822) TOMMASO MINARDI, On the Essential Quality ofltalian Painting from Its Renaissance to the Period of Its Perfection (I834) A.F. RIO, The Poetry of Christian Art (I836) ETIENNE-JEAN DELECLUZE, "The Beards" of I800 and "The Beards" ofToday (I835) CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, What Is Romanticism? (I846) EUGENE DELACROIX, journals (I824-I847) PART III. TRUTH TO NATURE AND THE NATURE OF TRUTH PIERRE-HENRI DE VALENCIENNES, Advice to a Student on Painting, Particularly on Landscape (I800) PHILIPP OTTO RUNGE, Letter to Daniel Runge (I802) CARL G. CARUS, Nine Letters on Landscape Painting (I83I) RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays (I8J6-I84I) JOHN RUSKIN, Preface to the Second Edition of Modern Painters (I844) JOHN CONSTABLE, Letters and Notes on Painting (I802- I836) CAMILLE COROT, Letters and Reflections on Painting BENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON and WILLIAM HAZLITT, Articles from the Encyclopaedia Britannica (I8I6) THEOPHILE THORE, To Theodore Rousseau (I844) CHAMPFLEURY, Courbet: The Burial at Omans (I86I) JEAN-FRANCOIS MILLET, Selected Writings (I858-I863) GUSTAVE COURBET, Selected Writings (I855-I870) PART IV. ART AND SOCIETY THEOPHILE THORE, New Tendencies in Art (I857) HIPPOLYTE TAINE, The Philosophy of Art (I865) PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON, Concerning the Principle of Art and Its Social Purpose (I857) WILLIAM MORRIS, The Art of the People (I882) PART V. AN ART OF PURE...