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The Education of the Eye: Painting, Landscape, and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain.

Publication: Albion
Publication Date: 22-SEP-04 		Format: Online - approximately 849 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The Education of the Eye: Painting, Landscape, and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
Peter de Bolla. The Education of the Eye: Painting, Landscape, and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 2003. Pp. xv, 274. $21.95 paper. ISBN 0-8047-4800-4.

One is perhaps a tad incredulous when an author asserts that "what we have come to understand and recognize as our own modes and forms of subjectivity" were first intelligible at a specific moment in the 1760s. Even Peter de Bolla, who advances just such an proposition, warily confesses to "a microhistorical focus of bizarre and unworkable proportions"; yet in his The Education of the Eye de Bolla argues persuasively that what he deems "the birth of visual culture" ushered in a newly trained eye, from which a newly emergent "I" was presumed to follow (p. 4). De...

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