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Essays on Art (Routledge Revivals) - Softcover

Clutton-Brock, A.

 
9780415742450: Essays on Art (Routledge Revivals)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415742455 ISBN 13: 9780415742450
Publisher: Routledge, 2015

Synopsis

This collection of brief but insightful essays, though always returning to the author’s central conviction that the quality of artistic endeavour depends not on individuals of genius but on the attitude of the public towards art itself, examines a wide variety of unique but related issues: the relationship between natural and artistic beauty; the genius of Da Vinci and Nicholas Poussin; the influence of femininity on European art; the importance of good criticism; art as a social phenomenon; the role of the passions; and a range of associated topics.

First published in 1919, A. Clutton-Brock’s reflections on the nature and function of art bear the marks of the deep anxieties following the First World War, and can thus speak to a generation similarly faced with uncertainty.

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A. Clutton-Brock

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415742455
ISBN 13 
9780415742450
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
158