Description |
xiv, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents |
The aesthetics of iconoclasm : swift and gray. Introduction : the aesthetics of making ; English iconoclasm ; "Suppose me dead" : Swift's verses and Gray's elegy -- The aesthetics of Georgic renewal : pope. Georgic farming and Ovidian Metamorphosis ; The unabused image of memory ; Aestheticizing the stigma ; The popean other -- The aesthetics of revolution/restoration : Byron and Wordsworth. The body politic of lords Rochester and Byron ; The aesthetics of gleaning in Don Juan ; Wordsworthian restoration -- The aesthetics of modernity : Hogarth. The Sleeping Congregation ; Remaking the classical canon ; Feminizing the hero ; The "love of pursuit" -- The aesthetics of mourning : Wright and Roubiliac. The empty tomb ; The woman on the tombstone -- The aesthetics of possession : Reynolds, Stubbs, Constable, and others. Labor aestheticized--painting possessed ; Portrait and landscape : Zoffany and Gainsborough ; Reynold's Mrs. Abington as Miss Prue ; Stubb's Hambletonian ; Constable's White Horse. |
Note |
Includes index. |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [331]-356. |
Subject |
Arts -- England -- History -- 18th century.
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Arts -- England -- History -- 19th century.
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Aesthetics, British -- 18th century.
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Aesthetics, British -- 19th century.
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Indexed Term |
British visual arts Aesthetics, history |
ISBN |
0813514398: $35.00 (est.) |
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