ISBN: 9780892367436 - making up the rococo - francois boucher and his critics (texts & documents) (7 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. This paperback book is in good condition. Externally there is some mild edge wear to the edges of the covers and to the top and bottom of the spine. There is also a small scuff to the side edges. Internally the book has been inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. All other pages are clean, tight and unmarked. In 1761, Denis Diderot ascribed the fabulous success enjoyed by Francois Boucher (1703-1770) 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 challen.…

paperback. Zustand: near fine. Illustrated in color and in black and white. 255 pages. 8vo, matte pictorial wrappers (circular ghost from removed sticker on the rear). Los Angeles: Getty Publications, (2006). Near fine. BOUCHER, Francois (illustrator).

Paperback. Zustand: As New. LIKE NEW. Very Clean. No writing or tears. Never Read.

Paperback. Zustand: As New. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. x, 255 p., ill., 26 cm.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Condition: New. Still wrapped in plastic. International shipping will be extra. Thanks.

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Softcover in overall good shape with light general wear. Binding firm and square. clean throughout.

Paperback. Zustand: New. Texts and Documents Series; In 1761, Denis Diderot ascribed the fabulous success enjoyed by Francois Boucher (1703-1770) 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 t 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.…