Vol. 11 No. 2 (2018): Aesthetics of Photography
Monographica

Tableaux vivants. Da Diderot a Jeff Wall

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  • Maddalena Mazzocut-Mis
Maddalena Mazzocut-Mis
Università degli Studi di Milano
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/Aisthesis-23249

Published 2018-11-04

Keywords

  • aesthetics,
  • tableaux vivants,
  • photography

How to Cite

Mazzocut-Mis, M. (2018). Tableaux vivants. Da Diderot a Jeff Wall. Aisthesis. Pratiche, Linguaggi E Saperi dell’estetico, 11(2), 101–113. https://doi.org/10.13128/Aisthesis-23249
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Abstract

From picture to photography and back. Tableau vivants, in their gestural synthetic dimension, represent for Diderot the apex of expression that the image can make explicit. Nothing closer to Wall’s poetics. His works show outstanding attention to detail: from scenic design to protagonists’ costumes, from light to actors’ action. And the result is exactly what Diderot saw in the eyes of people observing Chardin’s art: imagination at work.

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