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Diderot's Thoughts on Art and Style
Author | : Denis Diderot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Arts |
ISBN | : 9780833740779 |
Diderot's Thoughts on Art and Style
Author | : Denis Diderot |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2017-12-11 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780331543698 |
Excerpt from Diderot's Thoughts on Art and Style: With Some of His Shorter Essays Reminds one of the description of the room where Goethe wrote, and which contained a few simple pieces of furniture, and none of those distracting objects which may divert the mind from beholding its own creations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
On Art and Artists: An Anthology of Diderot's Aesthetic Thought
Author | : Denis Diderot |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2010-12-09 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9400700628 |
Chance ordained that Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was not only a philosopher, playwright and writer, but also a salonnier. In other words, an art critic. In 1759, his friend Grimm entrusted him with a project that forced him to acquire "thoughtful notions concerning painting and sculpture" and to refine "art terms, so familiar in his words yet so vague in his mind". Diderot wrote artistic reviews of exhibitions – Salons – that were organized bi-annually at the Louvre by the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. These reviews, published in the Correspondence Littéraire, were Diderot’s unique contribution to art criticism in France. He fulfilled his task of salonnier on nine occasions, despite occasional dips in his enthusiasm and self-confidence. Compiled and presented by Jean Szenec, this anthology helps the contemporary reader to familiarize himself with Diderot’s aesthetic thought in all its greatness. It includes eight illustrations and is followed by texts from Jean Starobinski, Michel Delon, and Arthur Cohen. ‘On Art and Artists’ is translated by John Glaus, professor of French and an amateur expert of the XVIIIth century.
Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely
Author | : Andrew S. Curran |
Publisher | : Other Press, LLC |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2019-01-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1590516702 |
Best Book of the Year – Kirkus Reviews A spirited biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who helped build the foundations of the modern world. Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world’s first comprehensive Encyclopédie into existence. But his most daring writing took place in the shadows. Thrown into prison for his atheism in 1749, Diderot decided to reserve his best books for posterity–for us, in fact. In the astonishing cache of unpublished writings left behind after his death, Diderot challenged virtually all of his century's accepted truths, from the sanctity of monarchy, to the racial justification of the slave trade, to the norms of human sexuality. One of Diderot’s most attentive readers during his lifetime was Catherine the Great, who not only supported him financially, but invited him to St. Petersburg to talk about the possibility of democratizing the Russian empire. In this thematically organized biography, Andrew S. Curran vividly describes Diderot’s tormented relationship with Rousseau, his curious correspondence with Voltaire, his passionate affairs, and his often iconoclastic stands on art, theater, morality, politics, and religion. But what this book brings out most brilliantly is how the writer's personal turmoil was an essential part of his genius and his ability to flout taboos, dogma, and convention.