Diderot on Art, Volume I Rural communities

Diderot on Art, Volume I Rural communitiesThe eighteenth century French philosophe Denis Diderot the principal intelligence behind the Encyclopdie 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 in English for the first time.

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