Taste and Power - Furnishing Modern France

Informationen zum Autor Leora Auslander is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Gender Studies at the University of Chicago. Klappentext In an extraordinary social history! Leora Auslander explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid 17th to the early 20th century! revealing how the aesthetics of everyday life were as integral to political events as to economic and social transformations. The book is enriched by the author's experience as a cabinetmaker. 68 photos. Zusammenfassung This work explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid-17th to the early-20th century. Analyzing furniture makers, sellers, buyers and arbiters, the book reveals how the aesthetics of everyday life were as integral to political events as economic and social transformations. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION Representation, Style, and Taste: The Politics of Everyday Life PART ONE The Paradox of Absolutism: The Power of the Monarch's Limits  1. The Courtly Stylistic Regime: Representation and Power under Absolutism  2. Negotiating Absolute Power: City, Crown, and Church  3· Fathers, Masters, and Kings: Mirroring Monarchical Power  PART TWO From Style to Taste:Transitions to the Bourgeois Stylistic Regime  4· Revolutionary Transformation: The Demise of the Culture of Production and of the Courtly Stylistic Regime  5· The New Politics of the Everyday: Making Class through Taste and Knowledge  6. The Separation of Aesthetics and Productive Labor PART THREE The Bourgeois Stylistic Regime: Representation, Nation, State, and the Everyday  7· The Bourgeoisie as Consumers: Social Representation and Power in the Third Republic 8. Style in the New Commercial World 9· After the Culture of Production:The Paradox of Labor and Citizenship 10. Style, the Nation, and the Market: EPILOGUE The Paradoxes of Representation in a Capitalist Republic Toward a Mass Stylistic Regime: The Citizen-Consumer Bibliography General Index Index of Names...

Product details

• Authors: Leora Auslander, Auslander Leora
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.04.1998
• EAN: 9780520213654
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21365-4
• No. of pages: 526
• Series: Studies on the History of Society and Culture; Studies on the History of Soci; Studies on the History of Society and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Cultural Studies, ARCHITECTURE / Interior Design / General, Professional interior design, HISTORY / Social History, Decorative arts, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, DESIGN / Decorative Arts, Social and cultural history, Architecture: interior design