Book Info enlarge picture Nineteenth-Century Theories of Art (California Studies in the History of Art, No 24)   Author: Joshua C. Taylor ISBN: 0520048881 Format: Publish Date:                  Book Review This unique and extraordinarily rich collection of writings offers a thematic approach to understanding the various theories of art that illumined the direction of nineteenth-century artists as diverse as Tommaso Minardi and Georges Seurat. It is significant that during the nineteenth century most artists felt compelled to found their artistic practice on a consciously established premise.