Signs and meaning in eighteenth-century art : epistemology, rhetoric, painting, poesy, music, dramatic performance, and G.F. Handel

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Label

Signs and meaning in eighteenth-century art : epistemology, rhetoric, painting, poesy, music, dramatic performance, and G.F. Handel

Title remainder

epistemology, rhetoric, painting, poesy, music, dramatic performance, and G.F. Handel

Statement of responsibility

H. James Jensen

Title variation

Signs and meanings in 18th-century art

Creator

• Jensen, H. James, 1933-

Subject

• Arts, Modern -- 18th century -- Psychological aspects
• Arts, Modern -- Psychological aspects
• Emotions in art
• Emotions in art
• Händel, Georg Friedrich -- Oratorium | Semiotik
• Künste -- Semiotik | Rhetorik -- Geschichte 1700-1800
• Muziekwerken
• Oratorium -- Semiotik | Händel, Georg Friedrich
• Retorica
• Rhetoric and psychology
• Rhetoric and psychology
• Rhetorik -- Semiotik | Künste -- Geschichte 1700-1800
• Semiotik -- Oratorium | Händel, Georg Friedrich
• Semiotik -- Rhetorik | Künste -- Geschichte 1700-1800
• Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics)
• Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics)
• 1700 - 1799

Language

eng

Summary

• Signs and Meaning explains historical assumptions about eighteenth-century art and performance, and the signs employed. It assumes that how artists thought they made art and how audiences thought they received it was how it was made, received, and understood. Eighteenth-century epistemological and rhetorical assumptions bring together meaning and practices of rhetoric, philosophy, literature, painting, dramatic performance, and music
• Musical drama shows the widest range of signs for an audience, presenting and representing the passions as the basis for the understanding of human nature and actions. This book starts with explanations of assumptions, and ends with analyses of G.F. Handel's dramatic oratorios

Member of

• American university studies, Series XX, Fine arts, v. 33

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

NX452

LC item number

.J46 1997

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

American university studies. Series XX, Fine arts,

Series volume

vol. 33