The last two decades have witnessed a “long overdue re-examination of what really did (or
did not) happen in the eighteenth century as to our conceptions of aesthetics and the fine …

The eighteenth century is a nuisance. At least to the historian bent on coming up with
tenable general assertions, or, even worse, encompassing narratives. The richness of …

In the eighteenth century, the rise of the philosophic issues that came to form modern
aesthetics is a complex movement as one might expect from the broad involvement of critics …

Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Ecce Ancilla Domini! of 1850 and Vincent Van Gogh's Bedroom at
Arles of 1888 share an unconventional approach to perspective construction; in both …

Although conceptions of the unity, integrity, or wholeness of the work of art stretch back to
antiquity, the emergence of the aesthetic as a theo retical category in eighteenth-century …

Modernism after Wagner, Juliet Koss's highly anticipated study of the historical and
conceptual basis for the Gesamtkunstwerk, identifies and attempts to rectify numerous …

The Continental Aesthetics Reader brings together classic and contemporary writings on art
and aesthetics from the major figures in continental thought. The second edition is clearly …

In this unprecedented collection, over twenty of the world's most prominent thinkers on the
subject including Arthur Danto, Stephen Melville, Wendy Steiner, Alexander Nehamas, and …

" This volume re-examines traditional interpretations of the rise of modern aesthetics in
eighteenth-century Britain and Germany. It provides a new account that connects aesthetic …

Among the art forms identified in the eighteenth century as central—painting, music,
sculpture, architecture, and literature—sculpture has perhaps received the least focused …