Author

Publication

2006-11-02 - Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Word Count

62,250 words, Guess

Page Count

249 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100521027462
  • ISBN-139780521027465
  • Goodreads1011852
  • Library of Congress Control Number2007274718
  • Better World Books9780521027465
and 1 more

Classifications

  • LCCPN2582.W65 M37 2006
  • LCCPN2582.W65 M37 1998
  • DDC792/.028/082094109034

First Sentence

From its start, the nineteenth century in Britain was imbued with new possibilities for the proliferation of sculpturally informed aesthetic judgements and criteria, for it was then that Britain, France and America imported into their museums what were to become the best-known examples of Classical sculpture, statues which '[entered] deeply into the visual consciousness of educated Europe', which 'were used as touchstone[s] by artists, art lovers, collectors and theorists alike for the gauging of taste and quality'.

Excerpt

From its start, the nineteenth century in Britain was imbued with new possibilities for the proliferation of sculpturally informed aesthetic judgements and criteria, for it was then that Britain, France and America imported into their museums what were to become the best-known examples of Classical sculpture, statues which '[entered] deeply into the visual consciousness of educated Europe', which 'were used as touchstone[s] by artists, art lovers, collectors and theorists alike for the gauging of taste and quality'.

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Other Editions

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