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 Culture Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-64453-055-9 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2013 |
| Publisher: | University of Delaware Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $52.00 |
Book Description:
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Pastiche, Fashion and Galanterie in Chardin's Genre Subjects seeks to understand how Chardin's genre subjects were composed and constructed to communicate certain things to the elites of Paris in the 1730s and 1740s. The book argues against the conventional view of Chardin as the transparent imitator of bourgeois life and values so ingrained in art history since the nineteenth century. Instead, it makes the case that these pictures were crafted to demonstrate the...
More Description Pastiche, Fashion and Galanterie in Chardin's Genre Subjects seeks to understand how Chardin's genre subjects were composed and constructed to communicate certain things to the elites of Paris in the 1730s and 1740s. The book argues against the conventional view of Chardin as the transparent imitator of bourgeois life and values so ingrained in art history since the nineteenth century. Instead, it makes the case that these pictures were crafted to demonstrate the artist's wit (esprit) and taste, traits linked to conventions of seventeenth-century galanterie.