The science of taste in the eighteenth century: philosophical criticism and the Scottish Historical School -- Academic theory versus association aesthetics: the ideological forms of a conflict of interests in the early nineteenth century -- Bourgeois critiques of the monopoly of taste -- Benthamism and the arts in the 1820s -- Cultural philanthropy and the invention of the Norwich School -- Landscape and ideology -- Meanings in Cotman's Norfolk subjects -- Sheep as a pictorial motif: pastoral and counter-pastoral -- Artisanal worldview in the landscapes of John Crome -- John Crome's 'local scenery': iconography and the ideology of the picturesque -- Constable and his audience: an argument for iconography -- The field of Waterloo exposed: Turner, Byron, and the politics of reaction -- Coda: regarding art history.
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