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Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot

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    …elaboration of his views in Absorption and Theatricality: Painting and Beholder in the Age of Diderot. There he identified the first sources of Modernist disinterestedness in the mid-18th-century reaction against the exquisite and decoratively theatrical attributes of Rococo painting. This reaction was typified by the paintings of artists such as…

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