SOAN 2112 Lecture Notes - Jean-Antoine Watteau, Deism, Industrial Revolution
18 Sep 2012
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Watteau-a pilgrimage to cythera-fantasy elements, smaller and intimate. Represents the life of aristocrats; scenes of high fashionable people usually in gardens. Pay homage to venus, mostly lovers, cupids etc. Chardin-more realistic, scenes of what actually happens in domestic life. Not art for arts sake like watteau; points to the real people of the revolution. Distain for aristocracy and focuses on the common man and their humble private lives. Virtue and strength resides in the lower class, ordinary, people. Montesquieu- philosopher with great curiosity about the world and travelled extensively. Had 2 ideas; people can develop laws that are reasonable and that reasonable laws differ from one society to the next. He believed laws should allow people as much freedom as possible and allow human nature to rule most of society. He opposed the rule of despotism and believed social phenomenon could be explained through the same laws as natural sciences.
