The Object of Art: The Theory of Illusion in Eighteenth-Century France by Marian Hobson

The Object of Art: The Theory of Illusion in Eighteenth-Century France

Cambridge Studies in French

Marian Hobson

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Are works of art imitations? If so, what exactly do they imitate? Should an artist remind his audience that what it is perceiving is in fact artifice, or should he try above all to persuade it to accept the illusion as reality? Questions such as t...

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