On Art and Artists: An Anthology of Diderot's Aesthetic Thought

• Main Author: Diderot, Denis (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Glaus, John S. D. (Editor), Seznec, Jean (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Arts.; Aesthetics.; Modern philosophy.; History of Philosophy.; Modern Philosophy.

Chance ordained that Denis Diderot 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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by Jean Szenec
• Definitions
• The conditions of art
• Criticism
• History
• The countryside
• The portrait
• The type
• Still life
• Diderot in the painter’s space by Jean Starobinski
• The averted Look by Michel Delon
• Composition according to Diderot by Arthur Cohen.