The ruin and the sketch in the eighteenth century , c2008
- Title(s):
The ruin and the sketch in the eighteenth century / Peter Wagner ... [et al.].
- Published/Created:
- Trier : Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, c2008.
- Physical Description:
- 286 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryN6766 .R75 2008 (LC)Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
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- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Selected papers from two symposia held in 2004 and 2006 in Paris.
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Subject Terms:
- Art, English -- 18th century -- Themes, motives -- Congresses.Artists' preparatory studies -- England -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses.Artists' preparatory studies -- France -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses.English literature -- 18th century -- Themes, motives -- Congresses.French literature -- 18th century -- Themes, motives -- Congresses.Ruins in art -- Congresses.Ruins in literature -- Congresses.
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- Ruins from above and from below : picturesque landscapes and urban 'pulling down houses' during the Gordon Riots / Uwe Böker
- The politics of sketching in late eighteenth-century reform writings / Christoph Houswitschka
- Sketch, illustration, and the power of imagination : aesthetic production and reception in eighteenth-century France / Shane Agin
- Les esquisses dramatiques de Diderot : pour une 'esthétique de l'inchoatif' / Sophie Marchand
- The superiority of the undone : built ruins and ruined patriots / Jonathan Lamb
- The post-Enlightenment sketch : Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Études de la nature / Joanna Stalnaker
- Sketching from life : Philip Thicknesse's A sketch of the life and paintings of Thomas Gainsborough (1788) / Jeffrey Hopes
- Minding the gaps : ellipses in William Hogarth's narrative art / Peter Wagner
- The sketch as transgression : Greuze's Roman charity / Bernadette Fort
- Representing ruins : convention and modernity in Joseph Wright's paintings / Catherine Purcell
- The hidden stratum of the sketch : Thomas Lawrence and the geology of English portraiture in the eighteenth century / A. Cassandra Albinson
- Topographies of the imagination : Turner's sketches as acts of memory and emergence, as both studies and fragments / Pierre-François Gorse
- Reading among the ruins / Daniel Brewer
- Artificial textual ruins : position in a typology of 'fragmentation in literature' and major functions in eighteenth-century British poetry and fiction / Werner Wolf
- The progress of sketches / Daniel Brewer.