In this collection of classic and newly-published essays, Andrew Hemingway exposes the voices of competing class interest in British aesthetics and art theory in the Romantic period and provides fresh insights into landscape paintings by Constable, Turner and others.
In this collection of classic and newly-published essays, Andrew Hemingway exposes the voices of competing class interest in British aesthetics and art theory in the Romantic period and provides fresh insights into landscape paintings by Constable, Turner and others.
Andrew Hemingway is Emeritus Professor in History of Art at University College London. His books include Landscape Imagery and Urban Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain (Cambridge University Press, 1992) and The Mysticism of Money: Precisionist Painting and Machine Age America (Periscope Publishing, 2013).
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List of Illustrations ... vii Acknowledgements ... xi Sources and Occasions ... xii Introduction: Theoretical Apologia ... 1 Aesthetics and Ideology 1 The Science of Taste in the Eighteenth Century: Philosophical Criticism and the Scottish Historical School ... 41 2 Academic Theory versus Association Aesthetics: The Ideological Forms of a Conflict of Interests in the Early Nineteenth Century ... 86 3 Bourgeois Critiques of the Monopoly of Taste ... 114 4 Genius, Gender, and Progress: Benthamism and the Arts in the 1820s ... 150 5 Cultural Philanthropy and the Invention of the Norwich School ... 181 Landscape and Ideology 6 Meaning in Cotman's Norfolk Subjects ... 217 7 Sheep as a Pictorial Motif: Pastoral and Counter-Pastoral ... 246 8 Artisanal Worldview in the Paintings of John Crome ... 297 9 John Crome's 'Local Scenery': Iconography and the Ideology of the Picturesque ... 336 10 Constable and his Audience: An Argument for Iconography ... 387 11 The Field of Waterloo Exposed: Turner, Byron, and the Politics of Reaction ... 420 Coda: Regarding Art History ... 459 Bibliography ... 464 Index ... 492
List of Illustrations ... vii Acknowledgements ... xi Sources and Occasions ... xii Introduction: Theoretical Apologia ... 1 Aesthetics and Ideology 1 The Science of Taste in the Eighteenth Century: Philosophical Criticism and the Scottish Historical School ... 41 2 Academic Theory versus Association Aesthetics: The Ideological Forms of a Conflict of Interests in the Early Nineteenth Century ... 86 3 Bourgeois Critiques of the Monopoly of Taste ... 114 4 Genius, Gender, and Progress: Benthamism and the Arts in the 1820s ... 150 5 Cultural Philanthropy and the Invention of the Norwich School ... 181 Landscape and Ideology 6 Meaning in Cotman's Norfolk Subjects ... 217 7 Sheep as a Pictorial Motif: Pastoral and Counter-Pastoral ... 246 8 Artisanal Worldview in the Paintings of John Crome ... 297 9 John Crome's 'Local Scenery': Iconography and the Ideology of the Picturesque ... 336 10 Constable and his Audience: An Argument for Iconography ... 387 11 The Field of Waterloo Exposed: Turner, Byron, and the Politics of Reaction ... 420 Coda: Regarding Art History ... 459 Bibliography ... 464 Index ... 492
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