On quality in art : criteria of excellence, past and present

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An acclaimed art historian explains how to identify excellence in artIn this book, Jakob Rosenberg takes up the timeless problem of how to make a valid judgment about artistic quality. In his search for criteria of excellence in art, Rosenberg examines both the achievements and failures of other cri...

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Main Author: Rosenberg, Jakob, 1893-1980 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023].
Series:A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; 1964.
Bollingen series ; 35:13.
Subjects:
Art criticism.
Drawing.
art criticism.
drawing (image-making)
ART / Criticism & Theory
Art criticism
Drawing
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Table of Contents:
  • Quality judgment in the past
  • The sixteenth century : Giorgio Vasari
  • The seventeenth century : Roger de Piles
  • The eighteenth century : Sir Joshua Reynolds
  • The nineteenth century : Théophile Thoré
  • The early twentieth century : Roger Fry
  • Quality judgment today
  • Master drawings of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
  • Master drawings of the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries
  • Master drawings of the twentieth centuries
  • Conclusions.

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