Joshua C. Taylor was Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago and Director of the National Museum of American Art from 1970 until his death in 1981. James L. Yarnall, formerly of the National Museum of American Art, prepared and edited the manuscript for publication.

• PrefaceIntroductionPART I. BEAUTY AND THE LANGUAGE OF FORMSIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, Discourses on Art (I77I)FRANCESCO MILIZIA, The Art of Seeing in the Fine ArtsofDesign According to the Principles of Sulzer andMengs (I78I)JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID, The Jury of Art (I793)WILLIAM GILPIN, Essay on Picturesque Beauty (I792)ALEXANDER COZENS, A New Method of Assisting theInvention in Drawing Original Compositions ofLandscape (1785)EDME-FRANyOIS ANTOINE MIEL, The Dream ofOrestesby Berthon (18I7-1818)QUATREMERE DE QUINCY, On the End oflmitation inthe Fine Arts (1823)J. A. D. INGRES, Commentaries on ArtPART II. ART AND THE COMMUNITY OF SOULSWILHELM WACKENRODER, Outpourings from theHeart of an Art-Loving Monk (1797)WILLIAM BLAKE, A Descriptive Catalogue ofPictures (1809)Marginalia to Reynolds's Discourses(ca. I8o8)FRANCOIS RENE, VICOMTE DE CHATEAUBRIAND, TheBeauties of Christianity (1802)FRIEDRICH OVERBECK, Diaries and Letters (18II, I8I4)ADOLPHE THIERS, On Naivete in the Arts (I822)TOMMASO MINARDI, On the Essential Quality ofltalianPainting from Its Renaissance to the Period of ItsPerfection (I834)A.F. RIO, The Poetry of Christian Art (I836)ETIENNE-JEAN DELECLUZE, "The Beards" of I800 and"The Beards" ofToday (I835)CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, What Is Romanticism? (I846)EUGENE DELACROIX, journals (I824-I847)PART III. TRUTH TO NATURE AND THE NATURE OF TRUTHPIERRE-HENRI DE VALENCIENNES, Advice to a Studenton Painting, Particularly on Landscape (I800)PHILIPP OTTO RUNGE, Letter to Daniel Runge (I802)CARL G. CARUS, Nine Letters on Landscape Painting(I83I)RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays (I8J6-I84I)JOHN RUSKIN, Preface to the Second Edition ofModern Painters (I844)JOHN CONSTABLE, Letters and Notes on Painting(I802- I836)CAMILLE COROT, Letters and Reflections on PaintingBENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON and WILLIAM HAZLITT,Articles from the Encyclopaedia Britannica (I8I6)THEOPHILE THORE, To Theodore Rousseau (I844)CHAMPFLEURY, Courbet: The Burial at Omans (I86I)JEAN-FRANCOIS MILLET, Selected Writings(I858-I863)GUSTAVE COURBET, Selected Writings (I855-I870)PART IV. ART AND SOCIETYTHEOPHILE THORE, New Tendencies in Art (I857)HIPPOLYTE TAINE, The Philosophy of Art (I865)PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON, Concerning the Principleof Art and Its Social Purpose (I857)WILLIAM MORRIS, The Art of the People (I882)PART V. AN ART OF PURE VISIONEMILE ZOLA, Edouard Manet (I867)Art at the Moment (I866)ADRIANO CECIONI, Telemaco Signorini (I884)Vincenzo Cabianca (ca. I884)EMILE BLEMONT, The Impressionists (I876)GEORGES RIVIERE, The Exhibition of theImpressionists (I877)MICHEL-EUGENE CHEVREUL, The Principles ofHarmony and Contrast of Colours, and TheirApplications to the Arts (I839)CHARLES BLANC, The Grammar of Painting andEngraving (1869)FELIX FENEON, The Impressionists in I886Neoimpressionism (1887)PART VI. ART AS CREATIONVITTORIO IMBRIANI, The Fifth Promotrice Exhibition,Letters IV and V (I868)JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER, Mr. Whistler's "TenO'Clock" (1885)CONRAD FIEDLER, Onjudging Works of VisualArt (1876)CHARLES HENRY, The Chromatic Circle (1888)GEORGES SEURAT, Letter to Maurice Beaubourg (1890)GUSTAVE KAHN, Seurat (1891)List of Illustrations and CreditsIndex

Joshua C. Taylor was Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago and Director of the National Museum of American Art from 1970 until his death in 1981. James L. Yarnall, formerly of the National Museum of American Art, prepared and edited the manuscript for publication.

• PrefaceIntroductionPART I. BEAUTY AND THE LANGUAGE OF FORMSIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, Discourses on Art (I77I)FRANCESCO MILIZIA, The Art of Seeing in the Fine ArtsofDesign According to the Principles of Sulzer andMengs (I78I)JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID, The Jury of Art (I793)WILLIAM GILPIN, Essay on Picturesque Beauty (I792)ALEXANDER COZENS, A New Method of Assisting theInvention in Drawing Original Compositions ofLandscape (1785)EDME-FRANyOIS ANTOINE MIEL, The Dream ofOrestesby Berthon (18I7-1818)QUATREMERE DE QUINCY, On the End oflmitation inthe Fine Arts (1823)J. A. D. INGRES, Commentaries on ArtPART II. ART AND THE COMMUNITY OF SOULSWILHELM WACKENRODER, Outpourings from theHeart of an Art-Loving Monk (1797)WILLIAM BLAKE, A Descriptive Catalogue ofPictures (1809)Marginalia to Reynolds's Discourses(ca. I8o8)FRANCOIS RENE, VICOMTE DE CHATEAUBRIAND, TheBeauties of Christianity (1802)FRIEDRICH OVERBECK, Diaries and Letters (18II, I8I4)ADOLPHE THIERS, On Naivete in the Arts (I822)TOMMASO MINARDI, On the Essential Quality ofltalianPainting from Its Renaissance to the Period of ItsPerfection (I834)A.F. RIO, The Poetry of Christian Art (I836)ETIENNE-JEAN DELECLUZE, "The Beards" of I800 and"The Beards" ofToday (I835)CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, What Is Romanticism? (I846)EUGENE DELACROIX, journals (I824-I847)PART III. TRUTH TO NATURE AND THE NATURE OF TRUTHPIERRE-HENRI DE VALENCIENNES, Advice to a Studenton Painting, Particularly on Landscape (I800)PHILIPP OTTO RUNGE, Letter to Daniel Runge (I802)CARL G. CARUS, Nine Letters on Landscape Painting(I83I)RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays (I8J6-I84I)JOHN RUSKIN, Preface to the Second Edition ofModern Painters (I844)JOHN CONSTABLE, Letters and Notes on Painting(I802- I836)CAMILLE COROT, Letters and Reflections on PaintingBENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON and WILLIAM HAZLITT,Articles from the Encyclopaedia Britannica (I8I6)THEOPHILE THORE, To Theodore Rousseau (I844)CHAMPFLEURY, Courbet: The Burial at Omans (I86I)JEAN-FRANCOIS MILLET, Selected Writings(I858-I863)GUSTAVE COURBET, Selected Writings (I855-I870)PART IV. ART AND SOCIETYTHEOPHILE THORE, New Tendencies in Art (I857)HIPPOLYTE TAINE, The Philosophy of Art (I865)PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON, Concerning the Principleof Art and Its Social Purpose (I857)WILLIAM MORRIS, The Art of the People (I882)PART V. AN ART OF PURE VISIONEMILE ZOLA, Edouard Manet (I867)Art at the Moment (I866)ADRIANO CECIONI, Telemaco Signorini (I884)Vincenzo Cabianca (ca. I884)EMILE BLEMONT, The Impressionists (I876)GEORGES RIVIERE, The Exhibition of theImpressionists (I877)MICHEL-EUGENE CHEVREUL, The Principles ofHarmony and Contrast of Colours, and TheirApplications to the Arts (I839)CHARLES BLANC, The Grammar of Painting andEngraving (1869)FELIX FENEON, The Impressionists in I886Neoimpressionism (1887)PART VI. ART AS CREATIONVITTORIO IMBRIANI, The Fifth Promotrice Exhibition,Letters IV and V (I868)JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER, Mr. Whistler's "TenO'Clock" (1885)CONRAD FIEDLER, Onjudging Works of VisualArt (1876)CHARLES HENRY, The Chromatic Circle (1888)GEORGES SEURAT, Letter to Maurice Beaubourg (1890)GUSTAVE KAHN, Seurat (1891)List of Illustrations and CreditsIndex

Joshua C. Taylor was Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago and Director of the National Museum of American Art from 1970 until his death in 1981. James L. Yarnall, formerly of the National Museum of American Art, prepared and edited the manuscript for publication.

• PrefaceIntroductionPART I. BEAUTY AND THE LANGUAGE OF FORMSIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, Discourses on Art (I77I)FRANCESCO MILIZIA, The Art of Seeing in the Fine ArtsofDesign According to the Principles of Sulzer andMengs (I78I)JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID, The Jury of Art (I793)WILLIAM GILPIN, Essay on Picturesque Beauty (I792)ALEXANDER COZENS, A New Method of Assisting theInvention in Drawing Original Compositions ofLandscape (1785)EDME-FRANyOIS ANTOINE MIEL, The Dream ofOrestesby Berthon (18I7-1818)QUATREMERE DE QUINCY, On the End oflmitation inthe Fine Arts (1823)J. A. D. INGRES, Commentaries on ArtPART II. ART AND THE COMMUNITY OF SOULSWILHELM WACKENRODER, Outpourings from theHeart of an Art-Loving Monk (1797)WILLIAM BLAKE, A Descriptive Catalogue ofPictures (1809)Marginalia to Reynolds's Discourses(ca. I8o8)FRANCOIS RENE, VICOMTE DE CHATEAUBRIAND, TheBeauties of Christianity (1802)FRIEDRICH OVERBECK, Diaries and Letters (18II, I8I4)ADOLPHE THIERS, On Naivete in the Arts (I822)TOMMASO MINARDI, On the Essential Quality ofltalianPainting from Its Renaissance to the Period of ItsPerfection (I834)A.F. RIO, The Poetry of Christian Art (I836)ETIENNE-JEAN DELECLUZE, "The Beards" of I800 and"The Beards" ofToday (I835)CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, What Is Romanticism? (I846)EUGENE DELACROIX, journals (I824-I847)PART III. TRUTH TO NATURE AND THE NATURE OF TRUTHPIERRE-HENRI DE VALENCIENNES, Advice to a Studenton Painting, Particularly on Landscape (I800)PHILIPP OTTO RUNGE, Letter to Daniel Runge (I802)CARL G. CARUS, Nine Letters on Landscape Painting(I83I)RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays (I8J6-I84I)JOHN RUSKIN, Preface to the Second Edition ofModern Painters (I844)JOHN CONSTABLE, Letters and Notes on Painting(I802- I836)CAMILLE COROT, Letters and Reflections on PaintingBENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON and WILLIAM HAZLITT,Articles from the Encyclopaedia Britannica (I8I6)THEOPHILE THORE, To Theodore Rousseau (I844)CHAMPFLEURY, Courbet: The Burial at Omans (I86I)JEAN-FRANCOIS MILLET, Selected Writings(I858-I863)GUSTAVE COURBET, Selected Writings (I855-I870)PART IV. ART AND SOCIETYTHEOPHILE THORE, New Tendencies in Art (I857)HIPPOLYTE TAINE, The Philosophy of Art (I865)PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON, Concerning the Principleof Art and Its Social Purpose (I857)WILLIAM MORRIS, The Art of the People (I882)PART V. AN ART OF PURE VISIONEMILE ZOLA, Edouard Manet (I867)Art at the Moment (I866)ADRIANO CECIONI, Telemaco Signorini (I884)Vincenzo Cabianca (ca. I884)EMILE BLEMONT, The Impressionists (I876)GEORGES RIVIERE, The Exhibition of theImpressionists (I877)MICHEL-EUGENE CHEVREUL, The Principles ofHarmony and Contrast of Colours, and TheirApplications to the Arts (I839)CHARLES BLANC, The Grammar of Painting andEngraving (1869)FELIX FENEON, The Impressionists in I886Neoimpressionism (1887)PART VI. ART AS CREATIONVITTORIO IMBRIANI, The Fifth Promotrice Exhibition,Letters IV and V (I868)JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER, Mr. Whistler's "TenO'Clock" (1885)CONRAD FIEDLER, Onjudging Works of VisualArt (1876)CHARLES HENRY, The Chromatic Circle (1888)GEORGES SEURAT, Letter to Maurice Beaubourg (1890)GUSTAVE KAHN, Seurat (1891)List of Illustrations and CreditsIndex