Barrell, John.

The Political Theory of Painting from Reynolds to Hazlitt – ‘The Body of the Public’.

First Paperback Edition. New Haven, Conn., Yale University Press, 1995. Octavo (13.7 cm wide x 21.8 cm high). VIII, 366 pages. Illustrated. Original, illustrated softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear.

Includes sections on:

- The scope of the book: The discourse of civic humanism / The civic humanist theory of painting etc.
- Sir Joshua Reynolds (Citizenship and the ability to abstract from particulars etc.)
- James Barry (Barry’s ‘Inquiry’ / Public and private bodies: Grace, Character and Deformity)
- A [William] Blake Dictionary (Blake and Romanticism)
- Henry Fuseli (The History of Painting in Greece / Two Accounts of the Hierarchy of Genres / The privatisation of modern society and the decay of ‘higher art’ / The composition of a privatised society etc.
- Benjamin Robert Haydon and William Hazlitt – Two Encyclopaedia Articles etc.

• Keywords: Art – Rare · Catalogue Four – International Art · Political Science – Rare · Political Theory
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300037201
• Inventory Number: 32215AB

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