The book is an analytical survey of the thought about painting and
sculpture as it unfolded from the early eighteenth to the
mid-nineteenth centuries. This was the period during which theories
of the visual arts, particularly of painting and sculpture,
underwent a radical transformation, as a result of which the
intellectual foundations of our modern views on the arts were
formed. Because this transformation can only be understood when
seen in a broad context of cultural, aesthetic and philosophical
developments of the period, Moshe Barasch surveys the opinions of
the artists, and also treats in some detail the doctrines of
philosophers, poets and critics. Barasch thus traces for the reader
the entire development of modernism in art and art theory.
The aesthetic and intellectual developments of the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries that changed our views of the artistic
image emphasized some central problems of critical reflection that
became the major themes of any thought on art. The artistic symbol,
the comprehensive system of the arts, and the relationship of one
art with another are discussed in detail. We see the origins of a
new perception of the artist's position, as well as the rise of new
values in art, such as the role of the grotesque and the ugly in
art. In his discussion of Baudelaire's analysis of Goya's monsters,
Barasch concludes that the modern world is reflected in art whose
beauty is independent of the beauty of nature. The book includes
thirty-one black and white illustrations.
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