Samuel Johnson's Attitude to the Arts.

Abstract

Part 1 Wholly deaf and insensible to music: ignorant of the science of music Johnson's reading and incidental writing on music. Part 2 Blind to painting: total ignorance in that department good offices for artists Johnson and poor Mauritius Lowe Johnson, James Barry and English history painting portraits of Samuel Johnson Johnson caricatured and illustrated. Part 3 Unskilled in architecture: Johnson and the building of Blackfriars Bridge Johnson and John Gwynn William Chambers in Johnson's circle. Part 4 Landscape - a universal blank: belied by false compare - Johnson's theory of natural description. Conclusion: the enemy of taste - Johnson's Socratic irony. Appendix: subject pictures of Johnson.

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