Making Up the Rococo - Francois Boucher And His Critics

Klappentext 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. This book explores how the discrediting of Boucher and his school intersected with cultural debates about gender and class. Zusammenfassung 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. This book explores how the discrediting of Boucher and his school intersected with cultural debates about gender and class.

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• Authors: . Hyde, .. Hyde, Melissa Hyde, Melissa Lee/ Boucher Hyde
• Publisher: Getty, j.paul, museum publ.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2006
• EAN: 9780892367436
• ISBN: 978-0-89236-743-6
• No. of pages: 255
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Texts & Documents (Paperback); Texts & Documents (Paperback); Texts and Documents
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; Non-fiction book; 17. Jahrhundert (1600 bis 1699 n. Chr.), 18. Jahrhundert (1700 bis 1799 n. Chr.)