Diderot on Art, Volume I: The Salon of 1765 and Notes on Painting

by Denis Diderot

Book Overview

The eighteenth-century French philosophe Denis Diderot--the principal intelligence behind the Encyclop die and the author of idiosyncratic fictional works such as Jacques the Fatalist and Rameau's Nephew--was also the first great art critic. Until now, however, Diderot's treatises on the visual arts have been available only in French. This two-volume edition makes the most important of his art-critical texts available...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300062516
• ISBN13: 9780300062519
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"