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Author Huhn, Tom.

Title Imitation and society : the persistence of mimesis in the aesthetics of Burke, Hogarth, and Kant / Tom Huhn.

Publication Info. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2004]
©2004

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 Moore Stacks  BH181 .H75 2004    Available  ---
Description 215 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series Literature and philosophy
Literature and philosophy.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-209) and index.
Contents Burke and the ambitions of taste -- Introducing taste -- Delight, or the labor theory of pleasure -- Sensation and sensibility -- Shaftesbury and the "charm of confederation" -- Sympathy -- Ambition -- Spectatorship -- Hogarth and the lineage of taste -- The epistemology of lines -- The eye for pleasure -- Dance and the movement from vision to imagination -- Eye and mind -- Kant and the pleasures of taste -- Activating sensibility -- Determining reflective judgment -- Phantom sensations and mistake subjects -- Representative pleasures -- Opaque pleasures.
Subject Aesthetics -- Social aspects -- History -- 18th century.
Aesthetics -- Social aspects.
History.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Aesthetics.
Judgment (Aesthetics) -- Social aspects -- History -- 18th century.
Judgment (Aesthetics)
Social aspects.
Mimesis in art -- History.
Mimesis in art.
Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797. Philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. Analysis of beauty.
Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804. Kritik der Urteilskraft.
ISBN 0271024682 cloth alkaline paper