Hume and the Heroic Portrait - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hume and the Heroic Portrait write by Edgar Wind. This book was released on 1986. Hume and the Heroic Portrait available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the second volume of Edgar Wind's selected papers, a companion to The Elegance of Symbols. Of all the scholars associated with the early development of the Warbur Institute Edgar Wind was the first to apply different theoretical principles to the study of English Art, above all in his early study of English portraiture, now a classic art history text. As the seminal essay, it gives title to the present volume, and is here translated into English for the first time. In this essay, which marked a change of direction in Wind's own development, he argues that two opposing styles of portraiture, exemplified in the art of Gainsborough and Reynolds, can be related to the different notions of humanity subscribed to by the philosophers David Hume and James Beattie. Other important studies, also reprinted here, make this volume an excellent resource to Wind's tremendous contributions to art history.
Portraiture
Portraiture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Portraiture write by Richard Brilliant. This book was released on 2013-05-15. Portraiture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the first general and theoretical study devoted entirely to portraiture. Drawing on a broad range of images from Antiquity to the twentieth century, which includes paintings, sculptures, prints, cartoons, postage stamps, medals, documents and photographs, Richard Brilliant investigates the genre as a particular phenomenon in Western art that is especially sensitive to changes in the perceived nature of the individual in society. The author's argument on behalf of portraiture (and he draws on examples by such artists as Botticelli, Rembrandt, Matisse, Warhol and Hockney) does not comprise a mere survey of the genre, nor is it a straightforward history of its reception. Instead, Brilliant presents a thematic and cogent analysis of the connections between the subject-matter of portraits and the beholder's response – the response he or she makes to the image itself and to the person it represents. Portraiture's extraordinary longevity and resilience as a genre is a testament to the power of this imaginative transaction between the subject, the artist and the beholder.
Impressions of Hume
Impressions of Hume - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Impressions of Hume write by Davide Panagia. This book was released on 2013-08-22. Impressions of Hume available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Davide Panagia’s Impressions of Hume: Cinematic Thinking and the Politics of Discontinuity is volume fifteen of Modernity and Political Thought, the Rowman & Littlefield series in contemporary political theory. Through close attention to Hume’s theories of sensation, Davide Panagia conceptualizes the modern even more radically (though also more literally) than many of the previous authors in this series. While devoting attention to how a historical thinker such as Hume is read and misread, used and abused in the modern intellectual world, Panagia also focuses on developing a theory of Humean perception and by so doing emphasizes the contemporaneity of Hume’s thought. In what at first seems to be an anachronistic as well as wildly curious claim about a philosopher of the eighteenth century, Panagia holds that Hume was a cinematic thinker.
Hume's Aesthetic Theory
Hume's Aesthetic Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hume's Aesthetic Theory write by Dabney Townsend. This book was released on 2013-04-15. Hume's Aesthetic Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Hume's Aesthetic Theory examines the neglected area of the development of aesthetics in empiricist thinking, exploring the link between the empiricist background of aesthetics in the eighteenth century and the work of David Hume. This is a major contribution to our understanding of Hume's general philosophy and provides fresh insights into the history of aesthetics.
Character, Self, and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment
Character, Self, and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Character, Self, and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment write by T. Ahnert. This book was released on 2016-01-25. Character, Self, and Sociability in the Scottish Enlightenment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An interdisciplinary examination of the Enlightenment character and its broader significance. Whilst the main focus of the book is the Scottish Enlightenment, contributors also employ a transatlantic scope by considering parallel developments in Europe, and America.
