Practical Form: Abstraction, Technique, and Beauty in Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics

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Practical Form: Abstraction, Technique, and Beauty in Eighteenth-Century AestheticsA groundbreaking study of the development of form in eighteenth century aesthetics In this original work, Abigail Zitin proposes a new history of the development of form as a concept in and for aesthetics. Her account substitutes women and artisans for the proverbial man of taste, asserting them as central figures in the rise of aesthetics as a field of philosophical inquiry in eighteenth century Europe. She shows how the idea of formal abstraction so

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