Ressource pédagogique : Fancying Nature: the posterity of Joseph Addison’s ‘Pleasures’ in English Enlightenment culture / Frédéric Ogée

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Fancying Nature: the posterity of Joseph Addison’s ‘Pleasures’ in English Enlightenment culture / Frédéric Ogée, in colloque international "Fancy?Fantaisie?Capriccio. Diversions and Distractions in the Eighteenth Century" organisé, sous la responsabilité scientifique de Muriel Adrien, Melissa Percival et Axel Hémery, par l’Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès et l’Université d’Exeter. Toulouse, Musée Paul-Dupuy, 3-4 décembre 2015. In this paper, Frédéric Ogée would like to discuss the seminal influence of Joseph Addison’s famous series of Spectator essays entitled ‘the Pleasures of the imagination’ on the new forms of artistic expression (novel, landscape garden, painting) which emerged in England in the eighteenth century. In the first essay, Addison claims that he will use the two terms (imagination and fancy) ‘promiscuously’, and then goes on to define their true meaning at great length. At the heart of his aesthetic theory is the provocative assertion of nature’s superiority over art. In literature, garden design or art, writers and artists proposed resolutely new creations which all attempt to expore this ‘modern’ link between nature, fancy and pleasure.

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• Art de 1700 à 1799 (XVIIIe siècle) (709.033)
• Histoire de la peinture dans les Îles britanniques et en Angleterre (peintres anglais) (759.2)
• Arts décoratifs et beaux-arts dans les îles britanniques (709.41)

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