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Product Identifiers
PublisherYale University Press
ISBN-100300062486
ISBN-139780300062489
eBay Product ID (ePID)89233
Product Key Features
Number of Pages312 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameDiderot on Art
SubjectGeneral, European, History / General
Publication Year1995
TypeTextbook
AuthorDenis. Diderot
Subject AreaArt
SeriesSalon of 1765 and Notes on Painting Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight18 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN95-010638
Series Volume NumberVol. 1
Number of Volumes2 vols.
IllustratedYes
Original LanguageFrench
SynopsisThe 18th-century French philosopher Denis Diderot - the principal intelligence behind the Encyclopedie and the author of idiosyncratic fictional works such as Jacques the Fatalist and Rameau's Nephew - is also considered by many to have been the first great art critic. Until now, however, Diderot's treatises on the visual arts have been available only in French. This two-volume edition makes his art-critical texts available in English. Diderot's works are among the most provocative and engaging products of the French Enlightenment. Moreover, their ruminations on many issues of perennial interest (invention versus convention, nature versus culture, and technique versus imagination; the complex relations) between economic reality and artistic achievement give them a rare pertinence to current debates on the nature and function of representation., An introduction by Thomas Crow describes the peculiar circumstances under which these texts were written, and concise notes make it possible for non-specialist readers to keep their bearings in the vividly evoked world of late eighteenth-century Paris.
LC Classification NumberN6846.D4613 1995
