Antoine Watteau : perspectives on the artist and the culture of his time / edited by Mary D. Sheriff.
Contributor(s): Sheriff, Mary D
| Watteau, Antoine.
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BookSeries: University of Delaware Press studies in 17th- and 18th- century art and culture.Publisher: Newark : University of Delaware, c2006Description: 201 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0874139341 .Subject(s): Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721 -- Criticism and interpretation | Art and society -- France -- History -- 18th centuryDDC classification: 759.4 WAT
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The essays in Antoine Watteau: Perspectives on the Artist and the Culture of His Time offer a richly textured portrait of the artist's life, work, and reputation for students, specialists, and the general public. The volume brings together art historians whose research is currently defining the field of Watteau studies with scholars from history and literature who have published widely on the political and cultural trends of Watteau's era. Essays include studies of the artist's drawing practice, his relation to the emerging public sphere, and the changing fortunes of his reputation, as well as considerations of art dealing and fashion in Watteau's time. Other essays take up conversation, dance, seduction, and theatricality as essential themes of Watteau's art. This volume will be an indispensable resource for all those interested in the visual culture of Regency France.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of Illustrations (p. 7)
- Acknowledgments (p. 9)
- Chronology (p. 11)
- Introduction: The Mystique of Antoine Watteau (p. 17)
- Interpreting Watteau across the Centuries (p. 28)
- Watteau Drawings: Artful and Natural (p. 41)
- The Monarchy, Public Opinion, and the Subversions of Antoine Watteau (p. 63)
- Style as Subject in Watteau's Images of Conversation (p. 76)
- Watteau's fete galante and the Artful Body (p. 94)
- Watteau and Theater: Movable Fetes (p. 106)
- The Flickers of Seduction: The Ambivalent and Surprising Painting of Watteau (p. 123)
- Clothing in the Age of Watteau (p. 133)
- Gersaint's Shopsign and the World of Art Dealing in Eighteenth-Century Paris (p. 150)
- Plates (p. 161)
- Selected Bibliography (p. 191)
- Contributors (p. 193)
- Index (p. 195)