The association of Ideas and the concept of the Picturesque in the British Aesthetics of the Enlightment
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https://doi.org/10.14422/pen.v76.i292.y2020.006Keywords:
association of ideas, british empiricism, the picturesque, aestheticsAbstract
With the pretext of reviewing the meaning and theoretical implications of the coinage, in the eighteenth century, of the concept of the picturesque, I attempt to settle with a new perspective the thesis that the British aesthetic of the Enlightenment undergoes a remarkable turn towards subjectivity as a place of experimentation and artistic creation. To do this, I study, first of all, the empiricist epistemological mechanism that covers, to a large extent, the invention and development of the picturesque, that of the association of ideas, without which it is impossible to understand — and this is the second issue — the complexity of the term «picturesque» and its relevance for the modern turn of aesthetics toward subjectivity.
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