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The Education of the Eye: Painting, Landscape, and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain Hardcover - 2003 - 1st Edition
by Peter de Bolla
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The Education of the Eye 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. The first was constructed on knowledge, on what one already knew, while the second was grounded in the eye itself. Though the first was most likely to lead to a socially and politically elite form for visual culture, the second, it was held, would almost certainly end up in the chaos of the mob. But there was another route through these conflicting accounts of the visual that preserved the education of the eye while at the same time allowing the eye freedom to enter into the realm of culture. This third route, that of the sentimental look, is explored in a series of contexts: the gallery, the pleasure garden, the landscape park, and the country house. The Education of the Eye sets out to reclaim visual culture for the democracy of the eye and to explain how aesthetic contemplation may, once more, be open to all who have eyes to look.
The book will interest historians of eighteenth-century British culture and historians of architecture, art, and landscape, as well as readers generally curious about the origins of our current visual culture.
The book will interest historians of eighteenth-century British culture and historians of architecture, art, and landscape, as well as readers generally curious about the origins of our current visual culture.
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- Title The Education of the Eye: Painting, Landscape, and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain
- Author Peter de Bolla
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 296
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford
- Date 2003-05
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780804744553 / 0804744556
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9.24 x 6.34 x 0.85 in (23.47 x 16.10 x 2.16 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Aesthetics, British - 18th century, Visual perception - Social aspects - Great
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002152900
- Dewey Decimal Code 709.410
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