Aesthetics : sources in the eighteenth century
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Aesthetics : sources in the eighteenth century
Thoemmes, 1998
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Writings about art and creativity can be traced to the texts of classical antiquity, but aesthetics as a separate and systematic area of philosophy is almost wholly a product of the 18th century. It was at that time that philosophers began to treat notions about creativity and our responses to it with a kind of philosophical rigour found in epistemology and metaphysics. Eighteenth-century authors sought to define what poetry, literature, painting and sculpture were and to determine the links between the various forms of artistic expression. They questioned whether artistic sensitivity could be acquired or was innate, and asked how good taste was cultivated and maintained. This is a collection of the less well-known 18th-century aesthetics texts. The authors include Daniel Webb, John Gilbert Cooper, and William Jackson. Readers familiar with the works of famous aestheticians such as Hume, Shaftesbury, Burke, and Home should find something of interest in these writings, and also background on the aesthetics debate.
Table of Contents
- Vol 1: "Two Discourses" (1719), Jonathan Richardson, 472pp. Vol 2: "Two Dissertations Concerning Sense and Imagination" (1728), 239pp. Vol 3: "A Dialogue on Beauty. In the Manner of Plato" (1731), George Stubbes, 63pp.
- "A Dialogue in the Manner of Plato, On the Superiority of the Pleasures of the Under-standing to the Pleasures of the Senses" (1734), George Stubbes, 138pp
- "Crito
- or a Dialogue on Beauty" (1752), Joseph Spence, 63pp. Vol 4: "Letters Concerning Taste" (1755), John Gilbert Cooper, 159pp
- "Essays - Read to a Literary Society...On the Influence of Philosophy Upon the Fine Arts, etc." (1759), James Moor, 184pp. Vol 5: "An Inquiry into the Beauties of Painting - and into the Merits of the Most Celebrated Painters, Ancient and Modern" (3rd ed.,1769), Daniel Webb, 216pp.
- "Observations on the Correspondence Between Poetry and Music" (1769), Daniel Webb, 162pp. Vol 6: "Clio - or, A Discourse on Taste - Addressed to a Young Lady" (1809), James Usher, 263pp. Vol 7: "Critical Essays...Observations on the Sublime of Loginus, etc." (1770), Richard Burnaby Greene, 343pp. Vol 8: "The Four Ages - Together With Essays on Various Subjects" (1798), William Jackson, 458pp.
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