Education of the Eye

Education of the Eye

AngličtinaPevná väzba
de Bolla, Peter
Stanford University Press
EAN: 9780804744553
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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.

EAN 9780804744553
ISBN 0804744556
Typ produktu Pevná väzba
Vydavateľ Stanford University Press
Dátum vydania 29. mája 2003
Stránky 296
Jazyk English
Rozmery 229 x 152
Krajina United States
Autori De Bolla, Peter
Ilustrácie 63 illustrations