Quatremère de Quincy's On the Ideal in the Pictorial Arts

In On the Ideal in the Pictorial Arts, Quatremèegrave;re de Quincy offers one of the most detailed treatments of mimesis since Aristotle. He defends the practice of ideal imitation against the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century predilection for real imitation and highlights the imagination's contribution to ideal imitation.

Michel-Antoine Xhignesse is instructor of philosophy at Capilano University.

Acknowledgments List of Captions Translator's Introduction: Quatremère de Quincy and the Mimetic Ideal References Preface to the Essay on the Ideal and its Practical Applications to the Works of Imitation Proper in the Pictorial Arts (1837) On the Ideal in the Pictorial Arts Index About the Translator