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- Title
THINKING LIKE AN ARTIST: HOGARTH, DIDEROT, AND THE AESTHETICS OF TECHNIQUE.
- Authors
Zitin, Abigail
- Abstract
In The Analysis of Beauty, William Hogarth advocated an unusual kind of formalism based in artistic practice: not form distilled into a rule for judgment but rather derived from the artist's techniques for perception and composition. Denis Diderot, too, embraced an aesthetics of technique, particularly in the Paradoxe sur le comédien, in which he contends that what appears impassioned in an affecting dramatic performance is in fact calculated. Diderot, however, had the extra burden of reconciling the ideal of illusion with his demystification of the practitioner's perspective, a reconciliation he could only conceive as a paradox.
- Subjects
HOGARTH, William, 1697-1764; DIDEROT, Denis, 1713-1784; ANALYSIS of Beauty, The (Book); SETECTED Writings on Art &; Literature (Book); BRITISH authors; FRENCH aesthetics; INFLUENCE (Literary, artistic, etc.); EIGHTEENTH century; HISTORY; AESTHETICS
- Publication
Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2013, Vol 46, Issue 4, p555
- ISSN
0013-2586
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/ecs.2013.0037