Author: GIBSON-WOOD, CAROL
Title: Jonathan Richardson: Art Theorist of the English Enlightenment
Description: USA: Yale University Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0300081278. The wealth of his father "enabled Richardson to live as a leisured gentleman of independent means. In both his career as a painter and his published writings, he asserted his independence from authority, whether in the form of court patronage or attributional judgements about pictures. Despite being neither a man of letters nor university educated, he considered his practical experiences, rational mind and extensive literary and intellectual acquaintance to be sufficient qualifications for the publication of three original volumes on art theory and one on Milton's Paradise Lost. He thereby epitomized the egalitarian implications of Lockean philosophy which, with its emphasis on the roughly equal natural abilities of people and the role of industry and education in achieving merit, provided an epistemological basis for bourgeouis individualism." - Introduction. Printed upon glossy stock. Generously illustrated in black and white. 264 pages. Footnotes. Bibliographical Note. Index. Clean, bright and unmarked with light wear. Slight lean to spine. Dust jacket not included. A sound copy.; Paul Mellon Centre For Studies In British Art; 4to. Good with no dust jacket .

Keywords: 0300081278 1665 1745 Written Works Criticism History 18th Century Critics Portrait Painters England Biography