The education of the eye : painting, landscape, and architecture in eighteenth-century Britain / Peter de Bolla.

Main entry:

De Bolla, Peter, 1957-

Title & Author:

The education of the eye : painting, landscape, and architecture in eighteenth-century Britain / Peter de Bolla.

Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.

Description:

xv, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-268) and index.
Introduction: The Education of the Eye 1 -- 1. The Culture of Visuality 14 -- 2. Vauxhall Gardens: The Visibility of Visuality 72 -- 3. The Leasowes and Hagley Park: A School for Taste 104 -- 4. Kedleston Hall: A Palace of ARt 151 -- 5. The Sentimental Look 218.

Summary:

This work examines the origins of visual culture in eighteenth-century Britain. It claims that at the moment when works of visual art were first displayed and contemplated as aesthetic objects two competing descriptions of the viewer or spectator promoted two very different accounts of culture.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

0804744556 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780804744553 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0804748004 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780804748001 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Aesthetics, British 18th century.
Visual perception Social aspects Great Britain History 18th century.
Esthétique britannique 18e siècle.
Perception visuelle Aspect social Grande-Bretagne Histoire 18e siècle.
Aesthetics, British.
Visual perception Social aspects.
Architekturkritik
Gartenkunst
Herrenhaus
Malerei
Visuelle Wahrnehmung
Ästhetik
Esthetica.
Landschapsarchitectuur.
Sociale aspecten.
Visual perception Social aspects Great Britain 18th century.
Great Britain.
Großbritannien
Kedleston Hall
Vauxhall Gardens

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 228271
Call No.: BH221.G7 D4 2003
Status: Available

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