Book by age, or by contents. How do you choose the text for your table? Mine is filled and emptied by whim; by wandering among the stacks. Like a sleepwalker without slippers. Old books are kept not maintained. They become overlaid with marks upon readings. Reynolds is an old text without many current readers. I never spend more than a frew minutes with it, although it draws me in enough times over the years to remain on in the main stacks.
Joshua Reynolds. [1723- 1792]
Further:
- John Barrell, The Political Theory of Painting from Reynolds to Hazlitt (1986).
- Martin Postle (ed.), Joshua Reynolds: The Creation of Celebrity (London: Tate, 2005). ISBN 1-85437-564-4
- Joshua Reynolds, Discourses on Art (London, 1778); ed. R. R. Wark (New Haven and London, 1975)
- Works by or about Joshua Reynolds at the Internet Archive
Additional ballast from the “other”:
- The ONLY ABSOLUTE TRUTH is that there are NO ABSOLUTE TRUTHS (Feyerabend)
- I define postmodern as incredulity toward metanarratives … (Jean-François Lyotard)
- Finally, if nothing can be truly asserted, even the following claim would be false, the claim that there is no true assertion. (Aristotle)
- If anyone thinks nothing is to be known, he does not even know whether that can be known, as he says he knows nothing. (Lucretius)
- And isn’t it a bad thing to be deceived about the truth, and a good thing to know what the truth is? For I assume that by knowing the truth you mean knowing things as they really are. (Plato)
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