In this volume Ralph Cohen brings together eight essays by notable scholars who examine various aspects of eighteenth-century art and aesthetics. Authors included in this volume M.H. Abrams, Carole Fabricant, Dora Wiebenson, Frances Ferguson, Ronald Paulson, Harold Bloom, Selma Cohen, and Joseph Kerman. The strength of these essays lies in the great breadth and rich variety of their topics which the development of dance as an institution, modern interpretations of eighteenth-century music, the developing concern for the small house in architecture, changing trends in painting, the political and social implications of landscape gardening, the development of aesthetic models, and the changing functions of the sublime in poetry and philosophy. Although individual chapters deal with specific arts, there is an interweaving of themes and arguments throughout the book which serves to develop aesthetic issues that are important for a comprehensive understanding of the arts.

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