Hume and the Heroic Portrait Studies in Eighteenth-Century Imagery

Name: Hume and the Heroic Portrait Studies in Eighteenth-Century Imagery
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ISBN: 9780198173717

ISBN-10: 0198173717

ISBN-13: 9780198173717

Edition: 1986

Authors: Edgar Wind, Jaynie Anderson

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This is the second volume of Edgar Wind's selected papers, a companion to The Elegance of Symbols. Of all the scholars associated with the early development of the Warbur Institute Edgar Wind was the first to apply different theoretical principles to the study of English Art, above all in his early study of English portraiture, now a classic art history text. As the seminal essay, it gives title to the present volume, and is here translated into English for the first time. In this essay, which marked a change of direction in Wind's own development, he argues that two opposing styles of portraiture, exemplified in the art of Gainsborough and Reynolds, can be related to the different notions…

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List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/26/1986
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 148
Size: 8.88" wide x 11.06" long x 1.01" tall
Weight: 2.596
Language: English