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The Object of Art: The Theory of Illusion in Eighteenth-Century France (Cambridge Studies in French)
The Object of Art The Theory of Illusion in EighteenthCentury France - Cambridge Studies in French
Author: Marian Hobson
Are works of art imitations? If so, what exactly do they imitate? Should an artist remind his audience that what it is perceiving is in fact artifice, or should he try above all to persuade it to accept the illusion as reality? Questions such as these, which have dominated aesthetic theory since the Greeks, were debated with extraordinary vigour...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521243506
ISBN-10: 0521243505
Publication Date: 9/30/1982
Pages: 406
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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