Painting in Eighteenth-century France
Author : Philip Conisbee
Publisher : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 23,50 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Philip Conisbee
Publisher : Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 23,50 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Philip Conisbee
Publisher : Ngw-Stud Hist Art
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 18,83 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN :
"Fifteen international scholars present their latest research into the contexts and meanings of French genre painting of the eighteenth century, from Jean-Antoine Watteau to Louis-Leopold Boilly. The essays represent a wide range of critical and historical perspectives, from traditional archival research to postructuralist criticism."--Page 4 de la couverture
Author : Yuriko Jackall
Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,2 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781848222342
"The exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington."
Author : National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 24,92 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Painting
ISBN :
"This illustrated book, written by leading scholars and the result of years of research and technical analysis, catalogues nearly one hundred paintings, from works by Francois Clouet in the sixteenth century to paintings by Elisabeth Louise Vigee Le Brun in the eighteenth. All these works are explored in detailed, readable entries that will appeal as much to the general art lover as to the specialist." --Book Jacket.
Author : Perrin Stein
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 27,44 MB
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300197004
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 1, 2013-January 5, 2014.
Author : Christine A. Jones
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 20,93 MB
Release : 2013-05-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 1644530740
Shapely Bodies: The Image of Porcelain in Eighteenth-Century France constructs the first cultural history of porcelain making in France. It takes its title from two types of “bodies” treated in this study: the craft of porcelain making shaped clods of earth into a clay body to produce high-end commodities and the French elite shaped human bodies into social subjects with the help of makeup, stylish patterns, and accessories. These practices crossed paths in the work of artisans, whose luxury objects reflected and also influenced the curves of fashion in the eighteenth century. French artisans began trials to reproduce fine Chinese porcelain in the 1660s. The challenge proved impossible until they found an essential ingredient, kaolin, in French soil in the 1760s. Shapely Bodies differs from other studies of French porcelain in that it does not begin in the 1760s at the Sèvres manufactory when it became technically possible to produce fine porcelain in France, but instead ends there. Without the secret of Chinese porcelain, artisans in France turned to radical forms of experimentation. Over the first half of the eighteenth century, they invented artificial alternatives to Chinese porcelain, decorated them with French style, and, with equal determination, shaped an identity for their new trade that distanced it from traditional guild-crafts and aligned it with scientific invention. The back story of porcelain making before kaolin provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of artisanal innovation and cultural mythmaking. To write artificial porcelain into a history of “real” porcelain dominated by China, Japan, and Meissen in Saxony, French porcelainiers learned to describe their new commodity in language that tapped into national pride and the mythic power of French savoir faire. Artificial porcelain cut such a fashionable image that by the mid-eighteenth century, Louis XV appropriated it for the glory of the crown. When the monarchy ended, revolutionaries reclaimed French porcelain, the fruit of a century of artisanal labor, for the Republic. Tracking how the porcelain arts were depicted in documents and visual arts during one hundred years of experimentation, Shapely Bodies reveals the politics behind the making of French porcelain’s image. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Author : Heather Eleanor MacDonald
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 14,52 MB
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300220170
"Since 2004, the Dallas Museum of Art has been the repository of the renowned collection of eighteenth-century French art assembled by the late Michael Rosenberg. The long-term loan of these masterpieces greatly enhances the collection of European art at the Museum, and the series of scholarly lectures funded by the Foundation, the Michael L. Rosenberg Lecture Series, gives a powerful boost to its European art program. Those lectures, presented by top scholars in the field of European art history, are re-presented in this volume"--
Author : Philip Conisbee
Publisher :
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780714821474
Author : Rochelle Ziskin
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 29,68 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 0271037857
"Explores the role of private art collections in the cultural, social, and political life of early eighteenth-century Paris. Examines how two principal groups of collectors, each associated with a different political faction, amassed different types of treasures and used them to establish social identities and compete for distinction"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Michael Levey
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 17,65 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300064940
Discusses the major painters and sculptors of the period during the last years of France's ancien regime - a period that started with Watteau and the fete galante and closed with the revolutionary history paintings of David.