The Frame of Art: Fictions of Aesthetic Experience, 1750-1815

by David Marshall

Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize given by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Aesthetic experience was problematic for Enlightenment authors. Arguing against the commonly held view that aesthetics in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was defined by the professionalization of criticism and the disinterested contemplation and evaluation of the work of art in isolation, David Marshall seeks to understand how and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801882338
• ISBN13: 9780801882333
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"