Charles Batteux (6 May 1713 – 14 July 1780) was a French philosopher and writer on aesthetics. Charles Batteux. Born, 6 May 1713. Alland'Huy-et-Sausseuil, ...
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Charles Batteux
French philosopher
Charles Batteux was a French philosopher and writer on aesthetics. Wikipedia
Born: May 6, 1713, Alland'Huy-et-Sausseuil, France
Died: July 14, 1780 (age 67 years), Paris, France
Charles Batteux in a book entitled Les Beaux Arts réduits à un même principe (1746; “The Fine Arts Reduced to a Single Principle”).
Charles Batteux was less of an innovator than an apt synthesizer of prevailing ideas and a late defender of the classical theory of imitation.
Abbé and writer on philosophy and æsthetics, b. near Vouziers, France, 6 May, 1713; d. at Paris, 14 July, 1780. He was professor at Paris of the humanities and ...
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Apr 14, 2016 · The bulk of Batteux's monograph is devoted to the twin topics of how the various arts imitate, and why their various modes of imitation give us pleasure.
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The Fine Arts Reduced to a Single Principle (1746) by Charles Batteux was arguably the most influential work on aesthetics published in the eighteenth century.
La politique / Aristote ; traduction de Champagne ; revue et corrigee par M. Hoefer. L'economique / Aristote ; traduction nouvelle de M. Hoefer.
(1713–80). French cleric and writer. His treatise Les Beaux-Arts réduits à un seul principe (1747) was a highly influential text on aesthetics throughout Europe ...
Oct 25, 2016 · Charles Batteux (1713–1780) is an important but secondary figure in French enlightenment aesthetics. His primary work, The Fine Arts Reduced ...
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