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THE FRAME OF ART: FICTIONS OF AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE, 1750-1815
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THE FRAME OF ART: FICTIONS OF AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE, 1750-1815. By David Marshall. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. 259 p.
David Marshall's new book proposes "a sort of counterplot to the story of aesthetic experience that is traditionally told about the eighteenth century" (13). The traditional story reflects an overdetermining frame built around two related phenomena: the rise of aesthetics as a formal subfield of philosophy and the concerted attempt to articulate ...
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