Continuum, Volume 4AMS Press, 1992 - French literature |
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Page 71
... discuss paintings for the benefit of those unable to view the Salon , his primary objective is to call attention to social injustice . Art , and art criticism , are socially valuable as well as creatively potent . Diderot's discussion ...
... discuss paintings for the benefit of those unable to view the Salon , his primary objective is to call attention to social injustice . Art , and art criticism , are socially valuable as well as creatively potent . Diderot's discussion ...
Page 106
... discussion and experimentation . Academies were superseding the authority of the Church , and producing a new elite , frequently clerical , that pronounced on general truths as part of the responsibilities of a new profession . The ...
... discussion and experimentation . Academies were superseding the authority of the Church , and producing a new elite , frequently clerical , that pronounced on general truths as part of the responsibilities of a new profession . The ...
Page 131
... discussion of orientalism in France during the Romantic period , for it was he who popularised the notion of the Oriental Renaissance . He used the expression as the title of a key section of one of his major works , Du génie des ...
... discussion of orientalism in France during the Romantic period , for it was he who popularised the notion of the Oriental Renaissance . He used the expression as the title of a key section of one of his major works , Du génie des ...
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