Unlocking potential with the best learning and research solutions

Look Inside

I want this title to be available as an eBook

An Analytical Inquiry into the Principles of Taste

Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture

Author: Richard Payne Knight

Date Published: July 2014
availability: Available
format: Paperback
isbn: 9781108067133

Rate & review

Paperback

Add to wishlist

Looking for an inspection copy?

This title is not currently available for inspection. However, if you are interested in the title for your course we can consider offering an inspection copy. To register your interest please contact [email protected] providing details of the course you are teaching.

Description

Contents

Resources

Courses

About the Authors

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.

Customer reviews

Not yet reviewed
Be the first to review

Log in to review

Review was not posted due to profanity
×

, create a review

(If you're not , sign out)

Please enter the right captcha value

Please enter a star rating.

Your review must be a minimum of 12 words.

How do you rate this item?

Reviews must contain at least 12 words about the product.

×

Product details
- Date Published: July 2014
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108067133
- length: 500 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 28 mm
- weight: 0.63kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. Of Sensation:
1. Of the sense of taste
2. Of smell
3. Of touch
4. Of hearing
5. Of sight
Part II. Of the Association of Ideas:
1. Of knowledge or improved perception
2. Of imagination
3. Of judgment
Part III. Of the Passions:
1. Of the sublime and pathetic
2. Of the ridiculous
3. Of novelty.
Look Inside
Author
Richard Payne Knight