ART. THEORY 1648-1815 An Anthology of Changing Ideas Edited by Charles Harrison, Paul Wood and Jason GaigerCopyright © Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 2000 Introduction, apparatus, selection and arrangement copyright ©) Charles Harrison, Paul Wood and Jason Gaiger 2000 First published 2000 24681097531 Blackwell Publishers Ltd 108 Cowley Road Oxford OX4 1JF UK Blackwell Publishers Inc. 350 Main Street Malden, Massachusetts 02148 USA All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Art in theory 1648-1815: an anthology of changing ideas/edited by Charles Harrison, Paul Wood, and Jason Gaiger. pcm Includes bibliographical references and index ISBN 0-631-20063-0 (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-631-20064-9 (pb: alk. paper) 1, Art, Modern—17th~18th centuries—Philosophy. 2. Art—Early warks to 1800. 1. Harrison, Charles, I, Wood, Paul, II]. Gaiger, Jason. N6420 .A78 2001 709 03'2—de21 00-034312 ‘Typeset in 10/12pt Ehrhardt by Kolam Information Services Pvt. Ltd, Pondicherry, India Printed in Great Britain by T.J. International, Padstow, Cornwall This book is printed on acid-free paperSummary of Contents | Establishing the Place of Art A Ancients and Moderns DS B The Academy: Systems and Principles 67 C Form and Colour 144 D The ‘je ne sais quoi’ 205 E Practical Resources 239 Il The Profession.of Art’ A Painting as a Liberal Art 298 B Imagination and Understanding 364 lll Judgement and the Public Sphere A Classical and Contemporary 427 B 5 Subli 7 C The Practice of Criticism 554 WV A Public Discourse A Consolidation and Instruction 634 B Revolution 695 V_ Nature and Human Nature A The Human as Subject 743 B Landscape and the Picturesque 819 VI Romanticism A Romantic Aesthetics 899 B Painting and Fiction 960 VIl_ Observation and Tradition A Objects of Study 1043 B The Continuity of Symbols 1117