Nineteenth-Century Theories of Art

Taylor, Joshua C.

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.

EAN

9780520048881

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

8 February 1989

Pages

563