The Enlightenment and the age of revolution : 1700-1850
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The Enlightenment and the age of revolution : 1700-1850
（Arts, culture and society in the Western World / general editor, Boris Ford）
Longman, 1998
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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: ppr ISBN 9780582084902
Description
A lavish survey of art and culture from the French Revolution to the mid-nineteenth century, John Sweetman's new study covers artistic developments in the closing years of the ancien regime - via the catalysts of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution - to the age of Romanticism and beyond. He is an astute guide, as he leads us from Pope to Pushkin, from Voltaire and Haydn to Dickens and Delocroix, tracing the growing autonomy of artists as they reached new audiences and discovered new subjects. This comprehensive survey also shows how European artists were conquering new worlds geographically too, eastward across Russia and westward across America, leaving us on the threshold of a recognizably modern age.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Order, Progress and Protest. 1. Markets For The Arts. 2. Traditions, Innovations: Opera And The Novel. 3. Perceptions of Nature: Design and Chance. 4. The Artist in Public and in Private. 5. The Fantastic and The Real. 6. Bridges To The Future. Further Reading. Index.
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: csd ISBN 9780582084919
Description
This volume takes the reader from the ancien regime - where the artist was the servant of court-based patronage - via the catalysts of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution to a new world where the artists like Beethoven, Byron and Turner were increasingly autonomous, finding their own inspirations and creating new and wider audiences. Science and scepticism were broadening the horizons of this world; the discovery of Nature provided new subjects and new ways of understanding it; the Romantics gave it a new range of sensibility; and a middle class readership, in which women were ever more important, gave the novel an ascendant place in it. European artists were conquering new worlds geographically too, eastward across Russia and westward across America.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: order, progress and protest. Markets for the arts
- traditions, innovations - opera and the novel
- perceptions of nature - design and chance
- bridges of promise?
- the artist in public and in private
- the fantastic and the real
- bridges to the future.
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