Critical Reflections on Poetry and Painting (2 vols.)


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Jean-Baptiste Du Bos’ Critical Reflections on Poetry and Painting, first published in French in 1719, is one of the seminal works of modern aesthetics. Du Bos rejected the seventeenth-century view that works of art are assessed by reason. Instead, he believed, audience members have sentiments in response to artworks. Their sentiments are fainter versions of those they would feel in response to actually seeing what the work of art imitates. Du Bos was influenced by John Locke’s empiricism and, in turn, had a major impact on virtually every major eighteenth-century contributor to philosophy of art, including Voltaire, Montesquieu, Diderot, Rousseau, Herder, Lessing, Mendelssohn, Kames, Gerard, and Hume. This is the first modern, annotated and scholarly edition of the Critical Reflections in any language.




Critical Reflections on Poetry and Painting, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)


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Excerpt from Critical Reflections on Poetry and Painting, Vol. 2 Third reflection. Gl'hat eminent painters have been'always cotemporaries with the great poets bof their own country. Page I 64. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




Critical Reflections on Poetry and Painting (2 Vols.): Translated with an Introduction and Notes by James O. Young and Margaret Cameron


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"Jean-Baptiste Du Bos' Critical Reflections on Poetry and Painting is one of the seminal works of modern aesthetics. Du Bos rejected the seventeenth-century view that works of art assessed by reason. Instead, he believed, audience members have sentiments in response to artworks. Their sentiments are fainter versions of those they would feel in response to actually seeing what the work of art imitates. Du Bos was influenced by John Locke's empiricism and, in turn, had a major impact on virtually every major eighteenth-century contributor to philosophy of art, including Voltaire, Montesquieu, Diderot, Rousseau, Herder, Lessing, Mendelssohn, Kames, Gerard, and Hume. This is the first modern, annotated and scholarly edition of the Critical Reflections in any language"--




Critical Reflections on Poetry and Painting


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"Jean-Baptiste Du Bos' Critical Reflections on Poetry and Painting is one of the seminal works of modern aesthetics. Du Bos rejected the seventeenth-century view that works of art assessed by reason. Instead, he believed, audience members have sentiments in response to artworks. Their sentiments are fainter versions of those they would feel in response to actually seeing what the work of art imitates. Du Bos was influenced by John Locke's empiricism and, in turn, had a major impact on virtually every major eighteenth-century contributor to philosophy of art, including Voltaire, Montesquieu, Diderot, Rousseau, Herder, Lessing, Mendelssohn, Kames, Gerard, and Hume. This is the first modern, annotated and scholarly edition of the Critical Reflections in any language"--




Critical Reflections on Poetry, Painting and Music. With an Inquiry Into the Rise and Progress of the Theatrical Entertainments of the Ancients


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First published in 1719, Dubos's Critical Reflections is a pioneering work of art criticism and aesthetics. Drawing on ancient and modern sources, Dubos offers a comprehensive analysis of the nature and function of poetry, painting, and music, as well as the role of the arts in society. A classic of French literature, Critical Reflections remains a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history and theory of art. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.







Critical Reflections on Poetry, Painting and Music with an Inquiry Into the Rise and Progress of the Theatrical Entertainments of the Ancients Written in French by the Abbé Du Bos, Translated Into English by Thomas Nugent, V 3 of 3


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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Huntington Library N003253 Vol.2 title reads: 'Critical reflections on poetry and painting'. London: printed for John Nourse, 1748. 3v.; 8°




Critical Reflections on Poetry, Painting and Music, Vol. 3


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Excerpt from Critical Reflections on Poetry, Painting and Music, Vol. 3: With an Inquiry Into the Rise and Progress of the Theatrical Entertainments of the Ancients C H A P. VI.. 7 hat in the writings of thefincicnt: the word cancre gnified fimetimet to declaim, and even fome' tithes to fpeak. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."