1st Edition
by Linda Walsh (Author)
A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art
offers an introductory overview of the art, artists, and artistic
movements of this exuberant period in European art, and the social,
economic, philosophical, and political debates that helped shape them.
- Covers both artistic developments and critical approaches to the period by leading contemporary scholars
- Uses
an innovative framework to emphasize the roles of tradition, modernity,
and hierarchy in the production of artistic works of the period
- Reveals the practical issues connected with the production, sale, public and private display of art of the period
- Assesses eighteenth-century art’s contribution to what we now refer to as ‘modernity’
- Includes
numerous illustrations, and is accompanied by online resources
examining art produced outside Europe and its relationship with the
West, along with other useful resources
