TY  - GEN
T1  - Esthetics of the moment : literature and art in the French Enlightenment
T2  - Critical authors & issues.
A1  - Kavanagh, Thomas M.
LA  - English
PP  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
YR  - 1996
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm44965311
AB  - The literature and art of the French Enlightenment is everywhere marked by an intense awareness of the moment. The parallel projects of living in, representing, and learning from the moment run through the Enlightenment's endeavors as tokens of an ambition and a heritage imposing its only and ultimately impossible cohesion. In this illuminating study, Thomas M. Kavanagh argues that Enlightenment culture and its tensions, contradictions, and achievements flow from a subversive attention to the present as present, freed from the weight of past and future. Examining a wide sweep of literary and artistic culture, Kavanagh argues against the traditional view of the Age of Reason as one of coherent, recognizable ideology expressed in a structured narrative form. In literature, he analyzes the moment at work in the inebriating lightness of Marivaux's repartee; the new-found freedom of Lahontan's and Rousseau's ideals of a consciousness limited to the present; Diderot's championing of Epicurean epistemology; Graffigny's portrayal of abrupt cultural displacement; and Casanova's penchant for chance's redefining moment. The moment in art theory and practice is explored in such forms as de Piles's defense of color; Du Bos's foregrounding of perception; Watteau's indulgence in a corporeal present; Chardin's dismantling of mimesis; and Boucher's and Fragonard's thematics of desire.
OP  - 294
CN  - NX549.A1 K38 1996eb
SN  - 0585172714
SN  - 9780585172712
SN  - 9780812202441
SN  - 0812202449
SN  - 0812233794
SN  - 9780812233797
KW  - Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics)
KW  - Arts, French.
KW  - Arts, Modern : 18th century.
KW  - Ut pictura poesis (Esthétique)
KW  - Arts français.
KW  - Arts : 18e siècle.
KW  - ut pictura poesis.
KW  - ART : Performance.
KW  - ART : Reference.
KW  - ART : History : Baroque & Rococo.
KW  - Arts, French
KW  - Arts, Modern
KW  - 1700-1799
ER  -