Thomas Jefferson on Taste and the Fine Arts

Jefferson tended to classify the books of his libraries under the Baconian headings of memory, reason, and...
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Author: M. Andrew Holowchak
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Language: English
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Thomas Jefferson on Taste and the Fine Arts by Holowchak, M. Andrew

Thomas Jefferson on Taste and the Fine Arts

$248.03

Thomas Jefferson on Taste and the Fine Arts

$248.03
Author: M. Andrew Holowchak
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Jefferson tended to classify the books of his libraries under the Baconian headings of memory, reason, and imagination, which corresponded to history, philosophy, and the fine arts. Thus, education in the Fine Arts, which Jefferson listed as eight, was considered an indispensible part of the life of an educated person-especially a Virginian. An educated person needed knowledge of architecture, gardening, painting, sculpture, rhetoric, belle lettres, poetry music, and criticism, considered as a sort of meta-art. Knowledge of such arts was indispensible because each person, thought Jefferson, was equipped with a faculty of taste as well as ratiocination and a moral-sense faculty-each of which required cultivation for human thriving. An uncultivated imagination would severely impair ratiocination and moral sensitivity.


This book is the first book-length attempt to flesh out and critically assess Jefferson's views on taste and the Fine Arts. It is a must read for any serious biographer of Jefferson.



Author: M. Andrew Holowchak
Publisher: Vernon Press
Published: 08/10/2022
Pages: 218
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781648894787

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