Quatremère de Quincy's On the Ideal in the Pictorial Arts

Zusammenfassung

Antoine-Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy was widely regarded as the pre-eminent art theorist of his day and exerted tremendous influence over the development of the arts in nineteenth-century France, publishing over twenty books over his career. Translated into English for the first time by Michel-Antoine Xhignesse, this 1805 treatise on imitation in the arts represents one of his major theoretical works. Quatremère de Quincy argues, against the prevailing opinion of the day, that artistic imitation aims at communicating the essence of the thing represented (ideal imitation), rather than merely faithfully reproducing its life appearance (real imitation). In order to communicate the essence, he argues, the artist must prioritize the contributions of her imagination over the choice and appearance of her model. This represented a significant departure from other accounts of ideal imitation, such as Batteux’s or Winckelmann’s, which instead advocated combining the best features of several different models.

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Bibliographische Angaben

Copyrightjahr

2024

ISBN-Print

978-1-6669-6764-7

ISBN-Online

978-1-6669-6765-4

Verlag

Lexington, Lanham

Sprache

Englisch

Seiten

56

Produkttyp

Monographie