The ruin and the sketch in the eighteenth century
By: Peter Wagner ... [et al.].
Series: Landau-Paris studies on the eighteenth century -- v. 2; Landau Paris studies on the eighteenth century -- v. 2.
Publisher: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Trier
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9783868210644
Subjects: Ruins in literature; Artist's preparatory studies; Themes, motives; English literature; Ruins in art; French literature; Congresses; English Art; History
Notes: Selected papers from two symposia held in 2004 and 2006 in Paris.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

English and French.
Table of contents: title: Ruins from above and from below : picturesque landscapes and urban 'pulling down houses' during the Gordon Riots / Uwe Böker; title: The politics of sketching in late eighteenth-century reform writings / Christoph Houswitschka; title: Sketch, illustration, and the power of imagination : aesthetic production and reception in eighteenth-century France / Shane Agin; title: Les esquisses dramatiques de Diderot : pour une 'esthétique de l'inchoatif' / Sophie Marchand; title: The superiority of the undone : built ruins and ruined patriots / Jonathan Lamb; title: The post-Enlightenment sketch : Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Études de la nature / Joanna Stalnaker; title: Sketching from life : Philip Thicknesse's A sketch of the life and paintings of Thomas Gainsborough (1788) / Jeffrey Hopes; title: Minding the gaps : ellipses in William Hogarth's narrative art / Peter Wagner; title: The sketch as transgression : Greuze's Roman charity / Bernadette Fort; title: Representing ruins : convention and modernity in Joseph Wright's paintings / Catherine Purcell; title: The hidden stratum of the sketch : Thomas Lawrence and the geology of English portraiture in the eighteenth century / A. Cassandra Albinson; title: Topographies of the imagination : Turner's sketches as acts of memory and emergence, as both studies and fragments / Pierre-François Gorse; title: Reading among the ruins / Daniel Brewer; title: Artificial textual ruins : position in a typology of 'fragmentation in literature' and major functions in eighteenth-century British poetry and fiction / Werner Wolf; title: The progress of sketches / Daniel Brewer.