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10%OFFPeter de Bolla - The Education of the Eye: Painting, Landscape, and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain - 9780804748001 - V9780804748001
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The Education of the Eye: Painting, Landscape, and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain

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Description for The Education of the Eye: Painting, Landscape, and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain Paperback. The Education of the Eye examines the origins of visual culture in eighteenth-century Britain, setting 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. Num Pages: 296 pages, 63 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; ACQ; AFC; AM; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.

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 ... Read more

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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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804748001
SKU
V9780804748001
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Peter de Bolla
Peter de Bolla is a Fellow at King's College, Cambridge. His most recent book is Art Matters (2001).

Reviews for The Education of the Eye: Painting, Landscape, and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain
"De Bolla's The Education of the Eye is a significant contribution to both the ongoing delineation of 'visual culture' as a field of inquiry, and to the reading of eighteenth-century public space."
Albion "...The detailed analyses and discussions of the various ways of looking are both fascinating and illuminating."
The Art Book

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