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This 6-page paper is a discussion about Lorenz Eitner's book,19th Century of European Painting. The focus of the paper is on the author's bias in terms of material presentation.
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the time to try to present his/her facts as a disinterested party, there is always some type of inherent bias, based on which way the author leans toward a particular
topic. Authors are, after all, quite human, and such bias is only to be expected, especially when it comes to something as subjective as the visual arts.
Such is the situation with Lorenz Eitners 19th Century European Painting. Although the author attempts to portray an unbiased attitude toward 18th century art, one
can find certain inherent biases, based on the way the author presents his information and based on the way he analyzes it.
For example, the table of contents presents an eyeful of information in this way, as he plunges into the French arts - specifically, the school of Jacques-Louis David and his
followers (Eitner iii). He in fact spends considerable time on Davids school, devoting close to 50 pages to the style. Its interesting to compare Eitners treatment of David to that
of Goya (an extraordinarily prominent Spanish artist) and Blake (who made a huge impact on European art from his home base in Great Britain). He does give a brief nod
to the German artists of the time, yet his bias is clearly French; French Romantics, French Landscape (despite the fact that there were outstanding landscape artists from other parts of
Europe) and the French school of realism. While there is something to be said for the idea that much of the art world looked to France at the time for
inspiration, Eitners beliefs seem to indicate that European painting began and ended in France, with everyone else simply second-class talent. He basis the Enlightenment period in France (lauding the French
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