Watteau and the Cultural Politics of Eighteenth-Century France

Klappentext This 2000 book examines the way Watteau consistently subverted high art by toying with conventions and genres. Zusammenfassung Julie-Anne Plax examines several categories of Watteau's paintings - theatrical, military, fêtes, and the art dealer. Arguing that Watteau consistently applied coherent strategies of representation aimed at subverting high art, in this 2000 book she shows how his paintings toyed ironically with conventions and genres. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Fête Galante and the cult of Honnêteté; 4. The meeting of high and low culture in Watteau's Gersaint's Signboard.

Product details

• Authors: Julie Anne Plax, Julie-Anne Plax
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.04.2011
• EAN: 9780521200844
• ISBN: 978-0-521-20084-4
• No. of pages: 274
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; ART / History / General, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Painting & paintings, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, Paintings and painting