An Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste (Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture) - Softcover

Knight, Richard Payne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1108067131 ISBN 13: 9781108067133

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Classical scholar, art collector and connoisseur Richard Payne Knight (1751–1824) took a keen interest in aesthetics and was a key figure in the debate on the picturesque. Of independent means, he journeyed across Europe, often in the company of artists. His home, Downton Castle in Herefordshire, set the fashion for crenellations. He sat in Parliament from 1780 to 1806, but beauty interested him more than politics. Following important works on aesthetics by such writers as Edmund Burke and Uvedale Price, Knight published his most successful work in 1805, cementing his reputation as an authority on matters of taste. Here he moves away from the ideas of Price and Burke, instead exploring the role of associations in the expression of aesthetic judgement. Knight's Analytical Essay on the Greek Alphabet (1791) and Inquiry into the Symbolical Language of Ancient Art and Mythology (1818) are also reissued in this series.

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Classical scholar and connoisseur Richard Payne Knight (1751-1824) had a keen interest in aesthetics and was a key figure in the debate on the picturesque. This influential 1805 publication, exploring the role of associations in the expression of aesthetic judgement, cemented Knight's reputation as an authority on taste.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1108067131
• ISBN 13: 9781108067133
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 500