This book studies the main representatives and trends of aesthetics and art theory from Antiquity to the mid-nineteenth century, considering, with special care, the approaches made from the theory of knowledge, philosophy and art criticism and literature; since neither art history nor the metacriticism of art criticism and theory can renounce them. Aware of the problems inherent in the study of a field as vast as that of a "history of aesthetics" that considers both art and art theory, Pochat avoids falling into a naive or too simple description of the "reciprocal clarification of the arts ”and addresses issues, theories and phenomena in the history of artistic reception that transcend the limits of different specializations. The text is accompanied by numerous diagrams, illustrations, textual citations and cross references that make it a key work for specialists and students, both in...read more