British Aesthetic Discourse. 1780–1830
The Sketch, the Non Finite , and the Imagination
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11882425 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wendelin Guentner (corresponding author), Wendelin A Guentner |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 40-47 |
| Publication date | 1993-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Art Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-3249 • E-ISSN: 2325-5307 |
| Publisher | College Art Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00043249.1993.10791508 |
| OpenAlex | W2322730411 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
In late eighteenth- and early nineteeth-century France the sketch was a frequent subject of aesthetic discourse. Diderot's critiques of sketches in his “Salons” of 1765 and 1767 come to mind, as do Watelet's extensive articles in the Encyclopédie (1779) and in the Dictionnaire des arts de peinture, de sculpture et de gravure (1792) that he co-edited. Often echoing his predecessors, Aubin Louis Millin dedicated several pages to explaining the values associated with the sketch in his Dictionnaire des beaux-arts (1806). Another sign of the importance of the sketch in France is that in these encyclopedias and dictionaries separate entries are also given to words associated with the sketch, such as “croquis,” “ébauche,” “fini,” and “achevé.” It is therefore noteworthy that during these same years the relationship of the pictorial sketch to the finished painting elicited significantly less discussion in Britain. For example, the word “sketch” appears only occasionally as a synonym for drawing or design under the headings “Painting,” “Drawing,” and “Design,” in nineteen dictionaries and encyclopedias published from 1743 to 1831. Only two of these encyclopedias, appearing toward the latter part of the period investigated, include separate entries for the word “sketch,” and these are definitions no more than a few words in length.1 It is not until the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia of 1830—to which I will return later—that entries on “Painting,” “Drawing,” or “Design” discuss in any detail the values associated with the sketch
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2020 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |