Watteau and the Cultural Politics of Eighteenth-Century France
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 15 August 2000
- ISBN 9780521642682
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages274 pages
- Size 254x178x16 mm
- Weight 690 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This 2000 book examines the way Watteau consistently subverted high art by toying with conventions and genres.
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In Watteau and the Cultural Politics of Eighteenth-Century France, Julie Anne Plax engages in an interdisciplinary examination of several categories of Watteau's paintings - theatrical, military, f&&&234;tes, and signboards. Arguing that Watteau consistently applied coherent strategies of representation aimed at subverting high art, she shows how his paintings toyed ironically with conventions and genres and confounded traditional categories. Plax connects these strategies to broader cultural themes and political issues that Watteau's art addressed throughout his career, thereby revealing the substantial unity of his oeuvre. Using a wide array of visual and verbal primary resources to illuminate the richness of the visual culture of eighteenth-century Paris and the last years of Louis XIV's reign, Watteau and the Cultural Politics of Eighteenth-Century France is a year 2000 text which will continue to contribute substantially to the current reassessment of the period.
"Carefully and clearly argued, Plax's book sets a model for actively integrating visual, historical and theoretical concerns." CAA Reviews
Table of Contents:
Introduction; 1. Watteau's Departure of the Italian Comedians in 1697 and the battle of the theater; 2. Watteau's military paintings: conflicts and confluences; 3. The F&&&234;te Galante and the cult of Honn&&&234;tet&&&233;; 4. The meeting of high and low culture in Watteau's Gersaint's Signboard.
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