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The Object of Art: The Theory of Illusion in Eighteenth-Century France
ISBN: 9780521115025 | 0521115027
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 7/20/2009
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In this book Dr Hobson analyses how art is perceived, focusing in turn on painting, the novel, drama, poetry and music in the eighteenth-century. Dr Hobson provides a method of mapping the changes in artistic style and opens an important perspective for the study of Romanticism and Realism.
Are works of art imitations? If so, what exactly do they imitate? Should an artist remind his audience that what it is perceiving is in fact artifice, or should he try above all to persuade it to accept the illusion as reality? ... MORE
Are works of art imitations? If so, what exactly do they imitate? Should an artist remind his audience that what it is perceiving is in fact artifice, or should he try above all to persuade it to accept the illusion as reality? ... MORE
| General editor's preface | |
| Foreword | |
| Introduction | |
| Illusion and Art: from the Truth of Imitation to the Imitation of Truth | |
| Illusion and Form in the Novel | |
| Illusion and the Theatre | |
| Illusion and Theories of Poetry: from Fictions to Forgeries | |
| Illusion as subjectivity: Theories of Music | |
| Conclusion | |
| Notes | ... MORE |
| Bibliography | |
| Index | |
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