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Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory, The Development of the Aesthetics of the Infinite
by Marjorie Hope Nicholson
- ART & ARCHITECTURE
- 1997
- PAPER
- 403 PAGES
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Not just a fascinating history of 18th-Century aesthetics, Nicholson in this classic book traces the profound shift in the English attitude toward mountains from ugly to sublime. Based on a series of lectures and originally published in 1958.
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