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An Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste (Paperback)
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An Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture
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Classical scholar, art collector and connoisseur Richard Payne
Knight (1751-1824) took a keen interest in aesthetics and was a key
figure in the debate on the picturesque. Of independent means, he
journeyed across Europe, often in the company of artists. His home,
Downton Castle in Herefordshire, set the fashion for crenellations.
He sat in Parliament from 1780 to 1806, but beauty interested him
more than politics. Following important works on aesthetics by such
writers as Edmund Burke and Uvedale Price, Knight published his
most successful work in 1805, cementing his reputation as an
authority on matters of taste. Here he moves away from the ideas of
Price and Burke, instead exploring the role of associations in the
expression of aesthetic judgement. Knight's Analytical Essay on the
Greek Alphabet (1791) and Inquiry into the Symbolical Language of
Ancient Art and Mythology (1818) are also reissued in this series.
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