Diderot And The Art Of The Theatre
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Author | : Andrew Herrick Clark |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780754654384 |
Andrew Clark proposes a comprehensive interpretation of Diderot's entire literary, philosophical, and scientific oeuvre as the locus of a fundamental reconceptualization of the relation of part to whole - bee to swarm; organ to body; word to phrase; dissonant chord to harmonic progression; article to encyclopedia; and individual citizen to body politic.
Author | : Sam Guy Endore |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1925 |
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Author | : Denis Diderot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Richard Wrigley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 135157535X |
Art, Theatre, and Opera in Paris, 1750-1850: Exchanges and Tensions maps some of the many complex and vivid connections between art, theatre, and opera in a period of dramatic and challenging historical change, thereby deepening an understanding of familiar (and less familiar) artworks, practices, and critical strategies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Throughout this period, new types of subject matter were shared, fostering both creative connections and reflection on matters of decorum, legibility, pictorial, and dramatic structure. Correspondances were at work on several levels: conception, design, and critical judgement. In a time of vigorous social, political, and cultural contestation, the status and role of the arts and their interrelation came to be a matter of passionate public scrutiny. Scholars from art history, French theatre studies, and musicology trace some of those connections and clashes, making visible the intimately interwoven and entangled world of the arts. Protagonists include Diderot, Sedaine, Jacques-Louis David, Ignace-Eug?-Marie Degotti, Marie Malibran, Paul Delaroche, Casimir Delavigne, Marie Dorval, the 'Bleeding Nun' from Lewis's The Monk, the Com?e-Fran?se and Etienne-Jean Del?uze.
Author | : Denis Diderot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 81 |
Release | : 2011-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781849023573 |
18th Century Frenchman Diderot uses a fictional conversation between two men to criticize those who argued against the Enlightenment. As his prior works of political opinion had caused his imprisonment, Diderot was especially careful to craft "Rameau's Nephew" in such a way to not face further trouble.
Author | : Jean Le Rond d'Alembert |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1995-08-15 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780226134765 |
Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot expresses the hopes, dogmas, assumptions, and prejudices that have come to characterize the French Enlightenment. In this preface to the Encyclopedia, d'Alembert traces the history of intellectual progress from the Renaissance to 1751. Including a revision of Diderot's Prospectus and a list of contributors to the Encyclopedia, this edition, elegantly translated and introduced by Professor Richard Schwab, is one of the great works of the Enlightenment and an outstanding introduction to the philosophes.
Author | : Michael Fried |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1988-09-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780226262130 |
With this widely acclaimed work, Michael Fried revised the way in which eighteenth-century French painting and criticism are viewed and understood. Analyzing paintings produced between 1753 and 1781 and the comments of a number of critics who wrote about them, especially Dennis Diderot, Fried discovers a new emphasis in the art of the time, based not on subject matter or style but on values and effects.
Author | : Amy Holzapfel |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2014-01-03 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1136768432 |
Realism in theatre is traditionally defined as a mere seed of modernism, a crude attempt to reproduce an exact copy of reality on stage. Art, Vision & Nineteenth-Century Realist Drama redefines realism as a complex and under-examined form of visual modernism, one that positioned theatre at the crux of the encounter between consciousness and the visible world. Tracing a historical continuum of "acts of seeing" on the realist stage, Holzapfel demonstrates how theatre participated in modernity’s aggressive interrogation of vision’s residence in the human body. New findings by scientists and philosophers—such as Diderot, Goethe, Müller, Helmholtz, and Galton—exposed how the visible world is experienced and framed by the unstable relativism of the physiological body rather than the fixed idealism of the mind. Realist artists across media paradoxically embraced this paradigm shift by focusing on the embodied observer. Drawing from extensive archival research, Holzapfel conducts close readings of iconic dramas and their productions—including Scribe’s The Glass of Water, Zola’s Thérèse Raquin, Ibsen’s A Doll House, Strindberg’s The Father, and Hauptmann’s Before Sunrise—alongside analyses of artwork by major painters and photographers—such as Chardin, Nadar, Millais, Rejlander, and Liebermann. In a radical challenge to existing criticism, Holzapfel argues that realism in theatre was never the attempt to reproduce an exact copy of the seen world but rather the struggle to make visible the act of seeing.
Author | : Joseph R. Roach |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780472082445 |
Explores the historical and cultural evolution of the theoretical language of the stage
Author | : Robert Zaretsky |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2019-02-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0674737903 |
A dual biography crafted around the famous encounter between the French philosopher who wrote about power and the Russian empress who wielded it with great aplomb. In October 1773, after a grueling trek from Paris, the aged and ailing Denis Diderot stumbled from a carriage in wintery St. Petersburg. The century’s most subversive thinker, Diderot arrived as the guest of its most ambitious and admired ruler, Empress Catherine of Russia. What followed was unprecedented: more than forty private meetings, stretching over nearly four months, between these two extraordinary figures. Diderot had come from Paris in order to guide—or so he thought—the woman who had become the continent’s last great hope for an enlightened ruler. But as it soon became clear, Catherine had a very different understanding not just of her role but of his as well. Philosophers, she claimed, had the luxury of writing on unfeeling paper. Rulers had the task of writing on human skin, sensitive to the slightest touch. Diderot and Catherine’s series of meetings, held in her private chambers at the Hermitage, captured the imagination of their contemporaries. While heads of state like Frederick of Prussia feared the consequences of these conversations, intellectuals like Voltaire hoped they would further the goals of the Enlightenment. In Catherine & Diderot, Robert Zaretsky traces the lives of these two remarkable figures, inviting us to reflect on the fraught relationship between politics and philosophy, and between a man of thought and a woman of action.