Abstract
Yves Bardon : Marmontel s esthetics of the passions. Jean-François Marmontel was the author of all the literature articles in the 1776 Supplément of the Encyclopédie ; in addition a series of aesthetic texts dating from 1773-7 show him to be the chief representative of Neo-Academism inherited from 18th-century Classicism, in a period which demanded a revolution of meaning in all fields, particularly the performing arts. Opera (also transformed by the arrival of Gliick) was supposed to express what classical theatre could not. Marmontel condemned the aesthetics of suffering, terror or excessive realism, preferring a model inherited from Greco-Roman mythology in which the «marvellous » serves «morality ». He was nostaligic for the great spectacles of Louis XVI's court, while at the same time taking part in the rise of Comic Opera and popular genres. He was unable to prevent the revolution in opera which questioned the nature and social utility of art in general.
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