Practical Form: Abstraction, Technique, and Beauty in Eighteenth-century Aesthetics - Couverture rigide

Zitin, Abigail

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300244568 ISBN 13 : 9780300244564

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2021

Synopsis

A groundbreaking study of the development of form in eighteenth-century aesthetics

In this original work, Abigail Zitin proposes a new history of the development of form as a concept in and for aesthetics. Her account substitutes women and artisans for the proverbial man of taste, asserting them as central figures in the rise of aesthetics as a field of philosophical inquiry in eighteenth-century Europe. She shows how the idea of formal abstraction so central to conceptions of beauty in this period emerges from the way practitioners think about craft and skill across the domestic, industrial, and so-called high arts. Zitin elegantly maps the complex connections among aesthetics, form, and formalism, drawing out the understated presence of practice in the writings of major eighteenth-century thinkers including Locke, Addison, Burke, and Kant. This new take on an old story ultimately challenges readers to reconsider form and why it matters.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Abigail Zitin is associate professor of English at Rutgers University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300244568
• ISBN 13: 9780300244564
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 248
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• Personne responsable: non disponible