![]() Similarly, the figure of the impresario (Italian) – the middleman, the artistic manager, art dealers, printers & engravers, a Europe-wide network of people feeding the growing demand for ‘art’ from a newly affluent middle class.ĭavid Hume & Adam Smith associated the civilising arts with the influence of commerce in bringing together remote people in a common cause. ![]() ![]() The figure of the connoisseur (French) appears, supported by the concept of ‘taste’ and ‘good taste’, separate from the king & aristocracy, the previous sole guardians of taste. The word ‘aesthetics’ was coined in the 1750s – a new area of philosophical study. Poetry, music, painting, sculpture, all dated back to antiquity – but the idea of linking them all into a new category, a separate field of investigation, as done by philosophical pioneers by Kant or Burke, was an 18th century innovation. It was in the 18th century that the notion of the arts or high art separated from lower, mechanical activities & trade. ![]()
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