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Pastiche, Fashion and Galanterie in Chardin’s Genre Subjects seeks to understand how Chardin’s genre subjects were composed and constructed to communicate certain things to the elites of Paris in the 1730s and 1740s. The book argues against the conventional view of Chardin as the transparent imitator of bourgeois life and values so ingrained in art history since the nineteenth century. Instead, it makes the case that these pictures were crafted to demonstrate the artist’s wit (esprit) and taste, traits linked to conventions of seventeenth-century galanterie.
List of contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Pastiche
Chapter 2: Fashionability
Chapter 3: Spaces of Imitation
Chapter 4: Negligent Beauty
Chapter 5: Picture Titles
Bibliography
About the Author
About the author
Paula Radisich is Professor of Art History at Whittier College.
Summary
Examines how Chardin's genre subjects were composed and constructed to communicate certain things to the elites of Paris in the 1730s and 1740s. The book argues against the conventional view of Chardin as the transparent imitator of bourgeois life and values so ingrained in art history since the nineteenth century.
