Quatremere De Quincy''s on the Ideal in the Pictorial Arts

In On the Ideal in the Pictorial Arts, Quatremère de Quincy offers one of the most detailed treatments of mimesis since Aristotle. He defends the practice of ideal imitation against the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century predilection for real imitation and highlights the imagination's contribution to ideal imitation.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
List of Captions
Translator's Introduction: Quatremère de Quincy and the Mimetic Ideal
References
Preface to the Essay on the Ideal and its Practical Applications to the Works of Imitation Proper
in the Pictorial Arts (1837)
On the Ideal in the Pictorial Arts
Index
About the Translator

About the author

Antoine Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy

Product details

• Authors: Antoine Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy, Antoine Chrysostome Quatremere De Quincy, Antoine Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy, Antoine Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy, Antoine Chrysostome Quatremere De Quatreme Quincy
• Assisted by: Michel-Antoine Xhignesse (Translation), Michel-Antoine Xhignesse (Translation)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.11.2024
• EAN: 9781666967647
• ISBN: 978-1-66696-764-7
• No. of pages: 142
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; ART / History / Ancient & Classical, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Philosophy: aesthetics, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory