Jonathan Richardson : art theorist of the English Enlightenment / Carol Gibson-Wood.

Main entry:

Gibson-Wood, Carol, 1950-

Title & Author:

Jonathan Richardson : art theorist of the English Enlightenment / Carol Gibson-Wood.

Publication:

New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, 2000.

Description:

viii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-255) and index.
Introduction-- Laborious years -- The eminent Mr. Richardson, c.1710-1730 -- "The fagg end of life" -- The Englishing of continental art theory -- The rationalization of connoisseurship -- England as art-critical capital of Europe.

Summary:

"Gibson-Wood describes art consumption in England in Richardson's time as well as the debates concerning native versus continental painting. She argues that Richardson's personal and written responses to these circumstances quintessentially embodied 'bourgeois' English Enlightenment ideals and the Lockean principles underpinning them. The first part of the book examines Richardson's personal life, professional career, literary aspirations, activities as a collector, and his relations with such contemporaries as Alexander Pope.
In the second part Gibson-Wood sets Richardson's writings in the contexts of earlier art theory and of other genres of contemporary writing, concluding that his art-theoretical programme was a radically English one that upheld the ability of freethinking Englishmen - including painters - to establish their own aesthetic criteria."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0300081278 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780300081275 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745.
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745 Written works.
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745 Écrits.
Richardson, Jonathan, (1665-1745) Oeuvres Écrits.
Art criticism England History 18th century.
Portrait painters Great Britain Biography.
Art critics Great Britain Biography.
Art critics England Biography.
Portrait painters England Biography.
Critique d'art Angleterre Histoire 18e siècle.
Critiques d'art Angleterre Biographies.
Portraitistes Angleterre Biographies.
Portraitistes Grande-Bretagne Biographies.
Critiques d'art Grande-Bretagne Biographies.
20.06 philosophy of art.
Art criticism.
Art critics.
Authorship.
Portrait painters.
Kunsttheorie.
Critique d'art Angleterre (GB) 18e siècle.
Critiques d'art Angleterre (GB) Biographies.
Portraitistes Angleterre (GB) Biographies.
England.
Great Britain.
1700-1745

Form/genre:

Biographies.
Writings.
History.
Biographies (form)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 214270
Call No.: ND37.R523 G5 2000
Status: Available

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