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Abstraction and the Classical Ideal : 1760-1920, Hardback Book

Abstraction and the Classical Ideal : 1760-1920 Hardback

Part of the Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century Art and Culture series

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This study traces an important but largely overlooked conception of abstraction in art form from its roots in eighteenth-century empirical epistemology to its application in the pursuit of ideal form from Joshua Reynolds to Piet Mondrian.

Theorized by Enlightenment philosophy as a means of discovering ideal essence by purging natural form of its accidental and contingent qualities, abstraction was a major focus of philosophical, scientific, and aesthetic discourse for more than one hundred fifty years, serving as the nucleus of fundamental debates about the philosophy of mind, the relationship between the Ancients and the Moderns, the nature of human racial and functional variety, the nature of God's creative ideas, the use of brushwork in painting, the validity of abstraction in art, and the visual appearance of ideal truth and beauty.

Through a close examination of these debates, this study significantly revises and enlarges our understanding of both abstraction and idealization in art.

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