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

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 ...

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