The Political Theory Of Painting From Reynolds To Hazlitt 'The Body of the Public'
Hardbound
1986 · New Haven
by Barrell, John
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. Hardbound. VG. Green cloth with color illustrated dustjacket. viii, [3], 366 pp. 26 illustrations in bw. "What is the function of painting in a commercial society? John Barrell here discusses how British artists and writers in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries attempted to answer this question, and his provocative and illuminating book offers a new perspective on both art criticism and eighteenth-century British culture. (Inventory #: 104660)