A Guide to Eighteenth-Century Art.

Intro -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Companion Website -- Introduction -- The Question of Style -- Modernity and the Public Sphere -- Tradition and Modernity in Art Outside Europe -- Scope and Structure -- Further Reading -- 1 Institutional Hierarchies -- Establishing a Fine Art Tradition: The Spread of Academies -- Academic Hierarchies: Institutions, Theory and Gender -- A Hierarchy of Skills -- The Art-Craft Divide: Unifying and Divisive Developments -- The Decline of the Guilds: Defining the "Artist" -- Questions of Modernity -- Further Reading -- 2 Genres and Contested Hierarchies -- History painting -- Portraiture -- Genre Painting -- Landscape -- Still Life -- Questions of Modernity -- Further Reading -- 3 Markets, Publics, Expert Opinions -- Markets and Patrons -- The Print Market -- Exhibitions, Collectors, Museums and their Visitors -- A Public for Art -- Painting for an Imperial Public -- Questions of Modernity -- Further Reading -- 4 Taste, Criticism and Journalism -- Identifying Beauty and Good Taste -- Journalism -- Questions of Modernity -- Further Reading -- 5 Seeking a Moral Order -- Art as a School of Morals -- Ways of Looking, Ways of Seeing -- Viewing, Consumerism and Luxury -- Exploring Moral Boundaries: Orientalism, the Senses and the Imagination -- Moral Feeling, Moral Looking -- Questions of Modernity -- Further Reading -- Conclusion -- References -- Index -- End User License Agreement.

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