Pastiche, Fashion, and Galanterie in Chardin's Genre Subjects Looking Smart |
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| Author:
| Radisich, Paula |
| Series title: | Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art and Cultu Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-306-20615-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2013 |
| Publisher: | University of Delaware Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $74.99 |
Book Description:
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This book analyzes the genre subjects created by Jean SimEon Chardin in the 1730s and 1740s as exemplars of a period-specific aesthetic known as the goUt moderne or Modern taste, a category shaped by the literary Quarrel of the Ancients versus the Moderns. The author historicizes the development of these genre subjects in ways that challenge the conventional view of Chardin as the exponent of bourgeois values in Enlightenment France.
This book analyzes the genre subjects created by Jean SimEon Chardin in the 1730s and 1740s as exemplars of a period-specific aesthetic known as the goUt moderne or Modern taste, a category shaped by the literary Quarrel of the Ancients versus the Moderns. The author historicizes the development of these genre subjects in ways that challenge the conventional view of Chardin as the exponent of bourgeois values in Enlightenment France.