Reading and seeing: The origins of Diderot's art criticism.

Title: Reading and seeing: The origins of Diderot's art criticism.
Identifier: AAI9946203
identifier: 9946203
Creator: Mortimer, Samantha F.
Contributor: Adviser: Mary Ann Caws
Date: 1999
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Literature, Romance
Abstract: A study of Diderot's Salons seeking to understand the formation of Diderot's paradigms in context. Rather than project Diderot forward into time as proof of his modernity, the dissertation asks us to return to a moment in 18th century culture when many European artists, critics and aesthetic theoreticians contemporary to Diderot were also debating many of the issues we associate with the principles articulated in the Salons. Working with an inter-textual matrix, offering comparative analyses, the dissertation demonstrates the specificity of Diderot's contribution and the originality of his style. The study suggests a new reading of Diderot's Salons that closely relates Diderot's work to that of his peers, indicating the development of Diderot's synthesis of 18th century European aesthetic theory, and demonstrates the evolution of his new rhetoric for art criticism.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.