Diderot historien de l'art?

• Autores: Annie Beco
• Localización: La franc-maçonnerie: Dix-Hutiéme siécle 1987, 1987, ISBN 2130414532, págs. 423-438
• Idioma: francés
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  • The questioning title indicates that the issue is the very possibility, and not the nature of art history in France at this date. This article tries to explain the historical dimension of the Salons as documents of their time and inasmuch as their critical judgements imply a historical perspective, limited by the normative nature of this criticism. The normative point of view interferes with the explicitly historical projects laid out, for example in the articles art and encyclopédie. The archaic conception of cyclical revolutions which is still at the basis of historical knowledge is here combined with the opposition between Ancients and Moderns. Thus we have a model for understanding the historical nature of art which indicates that Diderot, like many Enlightenment thinkers, had problems with history and time.

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