This unique and extraordinarily rich collection of writings offers a thematic approach to understanding the various theories of art that illumined the direction

This unique and extraordinarily rich collection of writings offers a thematic approach to understanding the various theories of art that illumined the direction

Includes selections from major writers on various approaches to art theory, for example Freud, Jung, Marx, Heidegger.

Offering an examination of the paragone, meaning artistic rivalry, in nineteenth-century France and England, this book considers how artists were impacted by pr