Past and present in art and taste : selected essays /
By: Haskell, Francis
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Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1987Description: xv, 255 p., [1] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0300036078; 9780300036077.Subject(s): Aesthetics, Modern -- 18th century![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Spine title: Past & present in art and taste.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. [227]-249.
The apotheosis of Newton in art -- Gibbon and the history of art -- The Baron d'Hancarville: an adventurer and art historian in eighteenth-century Europe -- An Italian patron of French neo-classic art -- Art and the language of politics -- The manufacture of the past in the nineteenth-century painting -- The old masters in nineteenth-century French painting -- The sad clown: some notes on a nineteenth-century myth -- Doré's London -- Giorgione's Concert champêtre and its admirers -- A martyr of attributionism: Morris Moore and the Louvre Apollo and Marsyas -- A Turk and his pictures in nineteenth-century Paris -- The Benjamin Altman bequest -- Enemies of modern art -- Benedict Nicolson (1914-1978).