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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Diderot, Denis (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Glaus, John S. D. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Seznec, Jean (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.