Landscape between ideology and the aesthetic : Marxist essays on British art and art theory, 1750-1850 / by Andrew Hemingway.
Published / Created:
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Physical Description:
xiii, 501 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 464-491) and index.
Contents:
The science of taste in the eighteenth century: philosophical criticism and the Scottish Historical School -- Academic theory versus association aesthetics: the ideological forms of a conflict of interests in the early nineteenth century -- Bourgeois critiques of the monopoly of taste -- Benthamism and the arts in the 1820s -- Cultural philanthropy and the invention of the Norwich School -- Landscape and ideology -- Meanings in Cotman's Norfolk subjects -- Sheep as a pictorial motif: pastoral and counter-pastoral -- Artisanal worldview in the landscapes of John Crome -- John Crome's 'local scenery': iconography and the ideology of the picturesque -- Constable and his audience: an argument for iconography -- The field of Waterloo exposed: Turner, Byron, and the politics of reaction -- Coda: regarding art history.
Subject Terms:
Constable, John, 1776–1837 -- Criticism and interpretation. | Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775–1851 -- Criticism and interpretation. | Communism and art -- Great Britain -- History. | Communist aesthetics. | Art -- Philosophy. | Art -- Great Britain -- History. | Art criticism -- Great Britain -- History.