The Royal Academy of Arts and the Eighteenth-Century British Culture

随着人们对绘画、雕塑和建筑的兴趣日益浓厚，18世纪的英国通常被称为“绘画转向”的时代。本研究试图从18世纪英国政治和社会的角度来探讨文学作品、艺术作品和美学理论之间的复杂关系。将个体与个体的时代研究结合起来并加以横向研究，有助于我们从整体上把握表面上支离破碎、孤立的文化现象，这些现象实际上是相互密切相关的；他们有时相互影响，有时相互对立或违背对方。本文还对约书亚·雷诺兹爵士的《论艺术》进行了详细的分析，特别提到了视觉和语言表现之间存在问题的关系。

With an increasing interest in paintings, sculptures and architectures, Eighteenth-Century England is often referred to as an age of "pictorial turn". In the present research project, an attempt is made to investigate into the complex relations among literary works, art works and aesthetic theories in terms of the politics and society in Eighteenth-Century England. Trying to combine and transverse individual and particular studies on the age helps us grasp in total apparently fragmentary and isolated phenomena of the culture, which were in fact deeply interrelated with each other; they were sometimes interacting, and sometimes opposing or transgressing each other. Detailed analyses were also made of Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses on Art with special reference to the problematic relations of visual and verbal representations.