Imitation and Society: The Persistence of Mimesis in the Aesthetics of Burke, Hogarth, and Kant

by Tom Huhn

This book reconsiders the fate of the doctrine of mimesis in the eighteenth century. Standard accounts of the aesthetic theories of this era hold that the idea of mimesis was supplanted by the far more robust and compelling doctrines of taste and aesthetic judgment. Since the idea of mimesis was taken to apply only in the relation of art to nature, it was judged to be too limited when the focus of aesthetics changed to questions about the constitution...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271024682
• ISBN13: 9780271024684
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 9.2"