Rethinking Boucher


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"Unequivocally a modern, Francois Boucher (1703-70) defined the French artistic avant-garde throughout his career. Yet the triumph of modernist aesthetics - with its focus on the self-critical, the autonomous, and the intellectually challenging - has long discouraged art historians and other viewers from taking Boucher's playful and alluring works seriously. Rethinking Boucher revisits the cultural meanings and reception of his diverse oeuvre, inviting us to revise the interpretive cliches by which we have sought to tame this artist and his epoch."--BOOK JACKET.




Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe


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Architectural Space in Eighteenth-Century Europe: Constructing Identities and Interiors explores how a diverse, pan-European group of eighteenth-century patrons - among them bankers, bishops, bluestockings, and courtesans - used architectural space and décor to shape and express identity. Eighteenth-century European architects understood the client's instrumental role in giving form and meaning to architectural space. In a treatise published in 1745, the French architect Germain Boffrand determined that a visitor could "judge the character of the master for whom the house was built by the way in which it is planned, decorated and distributed." This interdisciplinary volume addresses two key interests of contemporary historians working in a range of disciplines: one, the broad question of identity formation, most notably as it relates to ideas of gender, class, and ethnicity; and two, the role played by different spatial environments in the production - not merely the reflection - of identity at defining historical and cultural moments. By combining contemporary critical analysis with a historically specific approach, the book's contributors situate ideas of space and the self within the visual and material remains of interiors in eighteenth-century Europe. In doing so, they offer compelling new insight not only into this historical period, but also into our own.




Furnishing the Eighteenth Century


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Catalogue Des Objets D'Art Et de Curiosite Europeens Et de L'Extreme-Orient


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Catalogue des objets d'art et de curiosite, belles minitaures par Fragonard, Charier, etc. emaux, objets de vitrine, ivoires, bijoux, bois sculptes, boites, medailles, monnaies, objets d'orfevrerie, anciennes porcelaines de Chine, du Japon, de Sevres, de Saxe, etc. faiences et gres anciens, objets divers, bronzes et meubles des epoques Louis XV, Lousi XVI et autres, paire de beaux candelabres en bronze cisele du temps de Louis XVI, tableaux anciens, pastels, aquarelles et dessins par divers artistes, dessins par G.-P. Cauvet, livres a figures et autres, composant la collection de M. E. Lefevre, dont la vente... aura lieu Hotel des commissaires-priseurs, rue Drouot... les jeudi 22, vendredi 23, samedi 24, lundi 26 et mardi 27 fevrier 1883... / Me Escribe, commissaire-priseur; [experts] M. Clement, marchand d'estampes de la Bibliotheque nationale, MM. Haro et fils, peintres experts, M. A. Bloche, expertDate de l'edition originale: 1883"[Vente. Art. 1883-02-22 - 1883-02-27. Paris][Collection. Art. Lefevre, E.. 1883]Reference bibliographique: Lugt, 42668"Ce livre est la reproduction fidele d'une oeuvre publiee avant 1920 et fait partie d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande editee par Hachette Livre, dans le cadre d'un partenariat avec la Bibliotheque nationale de France, offrant l'opportunite d'acceder a des ouvrages anciens et souvent rares issus des fonds patrimoniaux de la BnF.Les oeuvres faisant partie de cette collection ont ete numerisees par la BnF et sont presentes sur Gallica, sa bibliotheque numerique.En entreprenant de redonner vie a ces ouvrages au travers d'une collection de livres reimprimes a la demande, nous leur donnons la possibilite de rencontrer un public elargi et participons a la transmission de connaissances et de savoirs parfois difficilement accessibles.Nous avons cherche a concilier la reproduction fidele d'un livre ancien a partir de sa version numerisee avec le souci d'un confort de lecture optimal. Nous esperons que les ouvrages de cette nouvelle collection vous apporteront entiere satisfaction.Pour plus d'informations, rendez-vous sur www.hachettebnf.fr




Cannibalismes disciplinaires


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Ce volume est issu du colloque "Histoire de l'art et anthropologie" qui s'est tenu du 21 au 23 juin 2007




La Grammaire


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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.




Luxury in the Eighteenth Century


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'Luxury in the 18th Century' explores the political, economic, moral and intellectual effects of the production and consumption of luxury goods, and provides a broadly-based account from a variety of perspectives, addressing key themes of economic debate, material culture, the principles of art and taste, luxury as 'female vice' and the exotic.




The Rococo Interior


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Defines and depicts the arts and architecture of the rococo period in France and examines its relation to society




Between Luxury and the Everyday


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This collection brings together studies on the French decorative arts in the eighteenth century, extending from bookbinding, typography and engraving to those related specifically to the domestic interior: porcelain, upholstery and furniture. A collection of studies on the French decorative arts in the eighteenth century. Covers an extensive range of subjects from bookbinding, typography and engraving to porcelain, upholstery and furniture. Demonstrates how the advancement of knowledge in porcelain and loom technology resulted in new luxury goods to the glory of Absolutism. Looks at how Revolution demanded that political change be reflected in the details of everyday life, such as dress and furniture.