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The ruin and the sketch in the eighteenth century / Peter Wagner [and others].

Title: The ruin and the sketch in the eighteenth century / Peter Wagner [and others].
Publication: Trier : Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, ©2008.

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Additional Authors

Wagner, Peter, 1949-

Description

286 pages : illustrations (some color); 23 cm.

Series Statement

Landau-Paris studies on the eighteenth century ; v. 2

Uniform Title

Landau Paris studies on the eighteenth century ; v. 2.

Subject

Genre/Form

Kongress – Paris – 2004.
Kongress – Paris – 2006.
Conference papers and proceedings
History

Note

Selected papers from two symposia held in 2004 and 2006 in Paris.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language (note)

English and French.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Ruins from above and from below : picturesque landscapes and urban 'pulling down houses' during the Gordon Riots / Uwe Böker -- The politics of sketching in late eighteenth-century reform writings / Christoph Houswitschka -- Sketch, illustration, and the power of imagination : aesthetic production and reception in eighteenth-century France / Shane Agin -- Les esquisses dramatiques de Diderot : pour une 'esthétique de l'inchoatif' / Sophie Marchand -- The superiority of the undone : built ruins and ruined patriots / Jonathan Lamb -- The post-Enlightenment sketch : Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Études de la nature / Joanna Stalnaker -- Sketching from life : Philip Thicknesse's A sketch of the life and paintings of Thomas Gainsborough (1788) / Jeffrey Hopes -- Minding the gaps : ellipses in William Hogarth's narrative art / Peter Wagner -- The sketch as transgression : Greuze's Roman charity / Bernadette Fort -- Representing ruins : convention and modernity in Joseph Wright's paintings / Catherine Purcell -- The hidden stratum of the sketch : Thomas Lawrence and the geology of English portraiture in the eighteenth century / A. Cassandra Albinson -- Topographies of the imagination : Turner's sketches as acts of memory and emergence, as both studies and fragments / Pierre-François Gorse -- Reading among the ruins / Daniel Brewer -- Artificial textual ruins : position in a typology of 'fragmentation in literature' and major functions in eighteenth-century British poetry and fiction / Werner Wolf -- The progress of sketches / Daniel Brewer.

ISBN

9783868210644
3868210644

LCCN

2009461077

OCLC

320245562
SCSB-9894991

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Harvard Library