1st Edition
The Arts in Mind Pioneering Texts of a Coterie of British Men of Letters
Edited By Ruth HaCohen
Copyright 2003
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Routledge
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Amajor shift in critical attitudes toward the arts took place in the eighteenth century. The fine arts were now looked upon as a group, divorced from the sciences and governed by their own rules. The century abounded with treatises that sought to establish the overriding principles that differentiate art from other walks of life as well as the principles that differentiate them from each other.... Read more
1: Third Earl of Shaftesbury (1671-1713); 2: Francis Hutcheson * (1694-1747); Hildebrand Jacob (1693-1739); James Harris (1709–1780); Charles Avison (1710-770); James Beattie (1735-1803); Advertisement; An Essay on Poetry and Music, as they Affect the Mind; Part I.; Daniel Webb; Observations on the Correspondence Between; To his Grace The DUKE OF GRAFTON, First Lord of the Treasury, &c. &c.; Observations on the Correspondence Between Poetry and Music.; Thomas Twining (1735-1804); Adam Smith (1723-1790); Of the Nature of that Imitation which takes place in what are called
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Ruth HaCohen
