A Guide to Eighteenth Century Art

Figure 3.10 Johannes or Jan Verelst: No Nee Yeath Tan no Ton, King of the Generath, oil on canvas, 1710 ...

audiences (Quilley, 2011, 42–44). European artists informed their domestic audiences of new additions to B ...

feminine (as well as unBritish) associations with “ornament” (Guest, 1992, 101–134; 2007, 21–22, 68– 69). ...

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Figure 3.11 Sir Joshua Reynolds: Portrait of Omai, oil on canvas, 236 × 145.5 cm, c. 1776. Private collecti ...

Global exploration and the dissemination through art of scenes representing the world beyond Europe were in many ...

4 Taste, Criticism and Journalism Identifying Beauty and Good Taste The concept of taste acquired great signifi ...

isolated, spontaneous responses to art but must evolve as an intellectual attribute, the senses nourishing the m ...

These Determinations to be pleas’d with any Forms, or Ideas which occur to our Observation, the Author choo ...

hedonism, or the pleasures of the physical senses, particularly the eye, which was to be entertained by “chas ...

paintings became exercises in his own creativity, as he invented stories, dialogues and witty anecdotes prompt ...

William Kent and others who sought familiarity with art without aspiring to the exclusive, specialist domain of t ...

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Figure 4.1 Johan Zoffany: Charles Townley and Friends in His Library at Park Street, Westminster, oil on canvas, ...

backgrounds who were tired of anodyne or elitist commentaries on art. Libelles thrived on parody, the burlesqu ...

academies. Most art criticism in France was related to the Salon exhibitions and these provided the main opportun ...

establishment could rally its support if under attack. La Font’s rare, virulent assault on contemporary art ...

Questions of Modernity The unprecedented growth in the eighteenth century of art criticism and aesthetics further e ...

5 Seeking a Moral Order: The Choice between Virtue and Pleasure Art as a School of Morals The process of viewing ...

the “superficial” pleasures of the senses and the deeper joys of moral consciousness. Further to this was the ...