Chinoiserie - Commerce and Critical Ornament in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Informationen zum Autor Stacey Sloboda is Associate Professor of Art History at Southern Illinois University Klappentext A critical reassessment of chinoiserie, a style both praised and derided for its triviality, prettiness, and ornamental excesses Zusammenfassung A critical reassessment of chinoiserie! a style both praised and derided for its triviality! prettiness! and ornamental excesses -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Reassessing chinoiserie1. Making china: circulation, imitation and innovation2. Buying china: commerce, taste and materialism3. Commerce in the bedroom: sex, gender and social status4. Commerce in the garden: nature, art and authorityConclusion: Style and the global marketplaceBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Stacey Sloboda, Sloboda Stacey
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2014
• EAN: 9780719089459
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8945-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture; Studies in Design and Material Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; ART / History / General, ART / European, DESIGN / History & Criticism, DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Commercial & Corporate, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Industrial / commercial art & design, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, history of design, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, Design, Industrial and commercial arts, illustration