Diderot, Rousseau and the politics of the arts in the Enlightenment. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Gerardo Tocchini.
• Authors: Tocchini, Gerardo
• Contents: PrefaceIntroduction Part I: The Beginnings: Music, Theatre, the NovelChapter 1. The problem of the theatrical Ancien régime: Musical operaChapter 2. Stage theatre: The real substance of the dispute Chapter 3: A 'politics' of the novel and the chasm between ancient and modernChapter 4. The function and destiny of badly written theatre Part II: The Subverters of the Artistic Culture of the Ancien régimeChapter 5: The Moment of the Fine ArtsChapter 6: Optical Illusions, and a Necessary PremiseChapter 7: Diderot and the Art of Politics for AllChapter 8: Painters and genres: norms, reality, the response of the marketChapter 9: New Spaces, Old Obligations Part III: In the Infernal Workshop of the Salons of PaintingChapter 10: Diderot, Rousseau and the 'Citizen' ArtistChapter 11: Towards a 'Politics' of the SublimeChapter 12: The Dignity of the Masses and the Eternal 'Lie' of AllegoryChapter 13: All that Others never Wrote Part IV: Finale Chapter 14: Concluding remarks and epilogue Bibliography.
• Publisher Details: Oxford : Voltaire Foundation
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (432 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 709.033; Art, Modern -- 18th century; Enlightenment
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781802071146
• Related ISBNs: 9781802070613
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