Critical reflections on poetry and painting. / Volume 2 / / Jean-Baptiste Du Bos, James O. Young, Margaret Cameron.

• Superior document: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
• VerfasserIn: Dubos, abbé 1670-1742,; Young, James O., 1957-; Cameron, Margaret
• TeilnehmendeR: Young, James O., 1957-; Cameron, Margaret
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (837 pages)

"Jean-Baptiste Du Bos' Critical Reflections on Poetry and Painting is one of the seminal works of modern aesthetics. Du Bos rejected the seventeenth-century view that works of art assessed by reason. Instead, he believed, audience members have sentiments in response to artworks. Their sentiments are fainter versions of those they would feel in response to actually seeing what the work of art imitates. Du Bos was influenced by John Locke's empiricism and, in turn, had a major impact on virtually every major eighteenth-century contributor to philosophy of art, including Voltaire, Montesquieu, Diderot, Rousseau, Herder, Lessing, Mendelssohn, Kames, Gerard, and Hume. This is the first modern, annotated and scholarly edition of the Critical Reflections in any language"-- Provided by publisher.