![]() ![]() Its purpose is to show how literature, painting, music and the theatre were communicated to a public increasingly avid for them. John Brewer's enthralling book explains how this happened and recreates the world in which the great works of English eighteenth-century art were made. By the dawn of the nineteenth century they were all aprt of the cultural life of the nation. ![]() In 1660, there were few professional authors, musicians and painters, no public concert series, galleries, newspaper critics or reviews. It charts the growth of a literary and artistic world fostered by publishers, theatrical and musical impresarios, picture dealers and auctioneers, and presented to th public in coffee-houses, concert halls, libraries, theatres and pleasure gardens. The Pleasures of the Imagination examines the birth and development of English "high culture" in the eighteenth century. Download The Pleasures of the Imagination Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle ![]()
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