Discourses On Art Delivered To The Students Of The Royal Academy

Author : Sir Joshua Reynolds
Publisher : Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies
ISBN 13 : 9780300073270
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book Discourses on Art written by Sir Joshua Reynolds and published by Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies. This book was released on 1975 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Discourses on Art of Sir Joshua Reynolds form one of the most eloquent literary documents in the history of European art. Composed as lectures to the students at the Royal Academy in the late eighteenth century, they both summarize the art theory of the previous three hundred years and point towards attitudes prevalent in the nineteenth century. Reynolds' general topic is the education of the artist. He is concerned with the essentials of the problem: the purpose of art, the nature of the creative process, and the artist's relation to tradition. He treats these questions with a breadth and clarity that won the immediate admiration of his contemporaries and have continued to hold the attention of readers ever since. No other body of art criticism by an Englishman has enjoyed such sustained respect. This standard edition of the Discourses is now reissued in a new format and with improved illustrations. It has long been recognized as a fundamental text for the study of eighteenth-century English painting, and this edition is generally considered to be the definitive one.