 | Jonah Siegel - 2000 - 384 страници
...before David's own confident claim, Joshua Reynolds is stark in his presentation of the options: The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure produced by it. As this principle is observed or neglected,... | |
 | Roy Harris - 2003 - 241 страници
...[ . . . ] in which the power of art is shown so much as in playing the fiddle. - Samuel Johnson The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the...employed in it, or the mental pleasure produced by it. - Reynolds Any purpose perverts art. - Benjamin Constant It is in works of art that nations have deposited... | |
 | Stephen Pattison, Roisin Pill - 2004 - 252 страници
...education at the Academy (Reynolds 1975). His fourth discourse begins with the following proposition: The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the...becomes either a liberal art or a mechanical trade. (Reynolds 1975: 45) are primarily intellectuals (despite possible obvious indications to the contrary).... | |
 | Henry Willis Wells - 1928 - 104 страници
...pjoetry._of_.al; lusipn is i in many^respect jte_highfist type of poetry. ^ "Gentlemen," said Sir Joshua, "the value and rank of every art is in proportion to the...employed in it, or the mental pleasure produced by it." The beauty of the free use of allusion in poetry lies in the degree to which it accelerates thought.... | |
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HE value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labour employed in it, or the mental pleasure produced by it. As this principle is observed or neglected, our profession becomes either a liberal art, or a mechanical trade. 
