A Republic of Taste
Thomas Crow, 19 March 1987
The Political Theory of Painting from Reynolds to Hazlitt: ‘The Body of the Public’
by John Barrell.
Yale, 366 pp., £16.95, October 1986,0 300 03720 1 Show More
by John Barrell.
Yale, 366 pp., £16.95, October 1986,
“... of discussion, and there were intermittent episodes of excitement around a Watteau, Greuze or David. When an artist had something revelatory to say, when he found ways to represent previously latent perceptions and structures of feeling, an audience was ready to respond. But in the absence of such exceptional art, the business of painting and sculpture ... ”