The Eighteenth Century (Cambridge Introduction to the History of Art) - Hardcover

Jones, Stephen

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ISBN 10: 0521240034 ISBN 13: 9780521240031

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1985

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Stephen Jones outlines the main artistic developments of the eighteenth-century, relating to daily life, garden and landscaped parks and builders and the influence of both French and Industrial revolutions on eighteenth-century art. This study also highlights important figures in art, such as Madame de Pompadour, Gainsborough and Nash.

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The eighteenth-century was an age of careful balance between classicism and romanticism in the arts and one moulded by the tension between individualism and the rise of middle-class taste. Stephen Jones outlines the main artistic developments of this period, relating them at all points to the experience of daily life in the age and highlighting the important figures in the arts whose careers exemplify the general themes - from Madame de Pompadour to Gainsborough and Nash. This introduction does not assume a wide-range of background knowledge. Themes are explained in context and technical terms made clear. The book introduces important elements that have often been given insufficient emphasis: the central place of the garden and landscaped park in the taste of patrons and builders and the influence of both French and Industrial revolutions on eighteenth-century art.

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Book by Jones Stephen

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0521240034
• ISBN 13: 9780521240031
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 96