On art and artists : an anthology of Diderot's aesthetic thought PDF
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John S. D. Glaus and Jean Seznec (eds.), On Art and Artists: An Anthology of Diderot's Aesthetic Thought, DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-0062-8, © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 Editors John S. D. Glaus and Jean Seznec Denis Diderot and John S. D. Glaus On Art and Artists: An Anthology of Diderot's Aesthetic Thought Editors John S. D. Glaus Rumford, Maine, USA Jean Seznec Oxford, United Kingdom Denis Diderot John S. D. Glaus Ombudsman of the Euler Society, Washington, DC, USA ISBN 978-94-007-0061-1 e-ISBN 978-94-007-0062-8 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 Translation from the French language edition: Ecrits sur l’art et les artistes , by Denis Diderot (paper collection, introduction and notes by Jean Seznec; with contributions by Jean Starobinski, Michel Delon and Arthur Cohen) Copyright © Hermann, Paris 2007 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Contents Introduction Definitions Beauty Beauty Is the Perception of Relations Beauty in Nature and Art God and the Artist Beautiful Nature and the Ideal Model False Art Art and Pantomime The Sublime Style Genius and Inspiration What Is Genius? A Composed Genius Inequalities of Inspiration The Drawing and the Finished Work Views on Sculpture Difficulties of Sculpture Its Limits and Its Merits The Sculptor’s Temperament Views on Architecture Architecture, Mother of the Arts Architecture and Location Architecture and Its Destination The Condition of Art Emulation and the Virtue of Public Exhibitions One Should Institute a Contest On a Same Theme for Artists Luxury Sane Wealth, Which Comes from Agriculture, is the Only One Which Is Useful to the Fine-Arts; The Spendthrift Buyer Degrades Them The Collectors They Reduce the Artist to Slavery They Keep for Themselves Works That Should Be Displayed for Public Enjoyment and Education and to Inspire Competition They Dispise Taste by Prefering Minor Scenes and Belittling the Great Ones Climate and Costume The Academic Model The Positive Philosophical Intellect The Ruin of the State Criticism Can a Literary Person Be an Art Critic? His Ignorance of the Vocation Appears to Prohibit Him How Diderot Taught Himself, Due to His Function as a Salonnier Contained Within the “Ideal” Part of Art, Can the Literary Person Be the Better Judge than the Artist Himself The Artist Recognizes Implicitly the Superiority of the Writer on This Point The Idea and the Way to Do It. Diderot Purveyor of Subjects Priority of the Idea Diderot Thinks as a Painter He Also Knows to Conceive as a Sculptor He Can Improve the Artist’s Concept as Well as Guide Him Qualities of a Critic Imagination and Memory Sensibility The Pleasure to Praise Indulgence Frankness and Charity Opinion and Posterity History The Great Style The Sword or Bellone Presenting His Horses’ Reins to Mars Paganism and Christianity Christian Characters Are Lacking and Spiteful; However the Great Masters Ennoble Them by Borrowing from Ancient Characters Two Summits of Religious Painting of the Eighteenth Century Modern History Why Painters Are Not Amenable to Modern History Diderot Proposes a Subject in Modern History Allegory The Triumph of Justice The Process of Description Comparison Dialogue The Dream The Countryside The Qualities of a Landscape Artist The Complete Landscapist The Intelligence of Light A Morning After the Rain Prelude to a Storm at Sunset Artificial Nature: Boucher The Shepherds of the Opéra-Comique Another Pastoral Setting Same Grandeur, Same Form and Same Merit as the Preceeding One In Boucher’s Defense Nature and History Praise for Vernet How Poussin Raises a Landscape to the Dignity of History The Picturesque: Loutherbourg Battles, Ruins and Shipwrecks The Painter of Battles Must Be a Poet and Dramatist The “Poetry” of Ruins Moral Associations Romantic Shipwrecks The Portrait The State and Appearance La Tour’s Ideas The Usual Expression Concerning Ones Own Portrait Portraits and Models The Portrait and History The Downfall of the Portrait The Type
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