Quatrem?re de Quincy's On the Ideal in the Pictorial Arts
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Product details:
- Publisher Lexington Books
- Date of Publication 2 December 2024
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781666967647
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages142 pages
- Size 228x152x15 mm
- Weight 354 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 b-w illustration 667
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Long description:
Antoine-Chrysostome Quatrem?re de Quincy was widely regarded as the pre-eminent art theorist of his day and exerted tremendous influence over the development of the arts in nineteenth-century France, publishing over twenty books over his career. Translated into English for the first time by Michel-Antoine Xhignesse, this 1837 treatise on imitation in the arts represents one of his major theoretical works. Quatrem?re de Quincy argues, against the prevailing opinion of the day, that artistic imitation aims at communicating the essence of the thing represented (ideal imitation), rather than merely faithfully reproducing its life appearance (real imitation). In order to communicate the essence, he argues, the artist must prioritize the contributions of her imagination over the choice and appearance of her model. This represented a significant departure from other accounts of ideal imitation, such as Batteux?s or Winckelmann?s, which instead advocated combining the best features of several different models.
?I?ve found that Quatrem?re de Quincy?s writings provide an essential starting point to the origins of the public art museum. I am most pleased to see that thanks to this marvelously lucid translation?which is accompanied by a most instructive introduction placing him in historical context?that a seminal book by this very influential early modernist theorist is accessible to an English- speaking audience.?
MoreTable of Contents:
Acknowledgments
List of Captions
Translator?s Introduction: Quatrem?re de Quincy and the Mimetic Ideal
References
Preface to the Essay on the Ideal and its Practical Applications to the Works of Imitation Proper
in the Pictorial Arts (1837)
On the Ideal in the Pictorial Arts
Index
About the Translator
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