Preface
Introduction
Part I: The Beginnings: Music, Theatre, the Novel
Chapter 1. The problem of the theatrical Ancien régime: Musical opera
Chapter 2. Stage theatre: The real substance of the dispute
Chapter 3: A ‘politics’ of the novel and the chasm between ancient and modern
Chapter 4. The function and destiny of badly written theatre
Part II: The Subverters of the Artistic Culture of the Ancien régime
Chapter 5: The Moment of the Fine Arts
Chapter 6: Optical Illusions, and a Necessary Premise
Chapter 7: Diderot and the Art of Politics for All
Chapter 8: Painters and genres: norms, reality, the response of the market
Chapter 9: New Spaces, Old Obligations
Part III: In the Infernal Workshop of the Salons of Painting
Chapter 10: Diderot, Rousseau and the ‘Citizen’ Artist
Chapter 11: Towards a ‘Politics’ of the Sublime
Chapter 12: The Dignity of the Masses and the Eternal ‘Lie’ of Allegory
Chapter 13: All that Others never Wrote
Part IV: Finale
Chapter 14: Concluding remarks and epilogue
Bibliography
GERARDO TOCCHINI is Full-Professor in Modern History at the Ca 'Foscari University of Venice. His research area is the social history of early modern European culture from the sixteenth to the late nineteenth century. He is the author of I Fratelli d’Orfeo (1998); Minacciare con le immagini. Tintoretto (2010); La politica della rappresentazione (2012); Su Greuze e Rousseau (2016).
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