{"product_id":"the-education-of-the-eye-painting-landscape-and-architecture-in-eighteenth-century-britain-paperback-softback-9780804748001","title":"The Education of the Eye; Painting, Landscape, and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Paperback \/ softback) 9780804748001","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Education of the Eye\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003ePainting, Landscape, and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePeter de Bolla (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780804748001\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 29 May 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages, 63 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.399 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"De Bolla's \u003ci\u003eThe Education of the Eye\u003c\/i\u003e is a significant contribution to both the ongoing delineation of 'visual culture' as a field of inquiry, and to the reading of eighteenth-century public space.\" - \u003ci\u003eAlbion\u003c\/i\u003e \"...The detailed analyses and discussions of the various ways of looking are both fascinating and illuminating.\" - \u003ci\u003eThe Art Book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Education of the Eye\u003c\/i\u003e examines the origins of visual culture in eighteenth-century Britain. It claims that at the moment when works of visual art were first displayed and contemplated as aesthetic objects two competing descriptions of the viewer or spectator promoted two very different accounts of culture. The first was constructed on knowledge, on what one already knew, while the second was grounded in the eye itself. Though the first was most likely to lead to a socially and politically elite form for visual culture, the second, it was held, would almost certainly end up in the chaos of the mob. But there was another route through these conflicting accounts of the visual that preserved the education of the eye while at the same time allowing the eye freedom to enter into the realm of culture. This third route, that of the sentimental look, is explored in a series of contexts: the gallery, the pleasure garden, the landscape park, and the country house. \u003ci\u003eThe Education of the Eye\u003c\/i\u003e sets out to reclaim visual culture for the democracy of the eye and to explain how aesthetic contemplation may, once more, be open to all who have eyes to look.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eThe book will interest historians of eighteenth-century British culture and historians of architecture, art, and landscape, as well as readers generally curious about the origins of our current visual culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52676634214680,"sku":"9780804748001","price":22.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-education-of-the-eye-painting-landscape-and-architecture-in-eighteenth-century-britain-paperback-softback-9780804748001","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}