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Making Up the Rococo : Francois Boucher and His Critics
by Hyde, Melissa; Francois Boucher
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- ISBN 10
- 0892367431
- ISBN 13
- 9780892367436
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Museum Publications. New. 2006. Paperback. 0892367431 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened -- 272 pages; 18 color and 53 b/w illustrations. Description: "In 1761, Denis Diderot ascribed the fabulous success enjoyed by François Boucher (17031770) to "the libertinage, the brilliancy, the pompons, the bosoms and bottoms" that proliferated in the artist's canvases. For while Boucher's art charmed nouveau riche buyers and titled patrons, this was not always the case with critics, and modern scholarship has done little to challenge Diderot's eventual judgment that to admire Boucher's work is to be a stranger to "real taste, to the truth, to just ideas, and to the seriousness of art." This engaging study examines the motives behind the contemporaneous critical response to Boucher's picturesque repertoire of amorous peasants, blithe aristocrats, and fanciful mythological scenes, and to the rococo style in general. The vision of the rococo (feminine, aristocratic, decadent) and of Boucher (facile, libertine, debauched) that lingers in modern art history was invented by eighteenth-century critics bent on reform, both aesthetic and political. Exploring how the discrediting of Boucher and his school intersected with cultural debates about gender and class, this account of Boucher's art should persuade critics and admirers alike to take another, more considered look." -- with a bonus offer-- .
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- Title
- Making Up the Rococo : Francois Boucher and His Critics
- Author
- Hyde, Melissa; Francois Boucher
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 2
- ISBN 10
- 0892367431
- ISBN 13
- 9780892367436
- Publisher
- Museum Publications
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 2006
- LCCN
- 2005016805
- Dewey
- 759.4
- Keywords
- 0892367431, collectible
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