Charles Batteux: The Fine Arts Reduced to a Single Principle

by James O. Young

The Fine Arts Reduced to a Single Principle (1746) by Charles Batteux was arguably the most influential work on aesthetics published in the eighteenth century. It influenced every major aesthetician in the second half of the century: Diderot, Herder, Hume, Kant, Lessing, Mendelssohn, and others either adopted his views or reacted against them. It is the work generally credited with establishing the modern system of the arts: poetry, painting, music,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019874711X
• ISBN13: 9780198747116
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.6"