A kingdom of images : French prints in the age of Louis XIV, 1660-1715
Bibliographic Information
A kingdom of images : French prints in the age of Louis XIV, 1660-1715
edited by Peter Fuhring, Louis Marchesano, Rémi Mathis, and Vanessa Selbach
Getty Research Institute, c2015
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Images du Grand Siècle: l'estampe française sous Louis XIV, 1660-1715
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Exhibition catalogue
"This publication is issued on the occasion of the exhibition A Kingdom of Images: French prints in the age of Louis XIV, 1660-1715, on view at the Getty Research Institute at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, from 16 June to 6 September 2015, and at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, from 2 November 2015 to 31 January 2016 with the title Images du Grand Siècle: l'estampe française sous Louis XIV, 1660-1715"--T.p. verso
"The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles in association with the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris"--T.p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 300-316) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book includes a rich and fascinating consideration of the golden age of French printmaking. Once considered the golden age of French printmaking, Louis XIV's reign saw Paris become a powerhouse of print production. During this time, the king aimed to make fine and decorative arts into signs of French taste and skill and, by extension, into markers of his imperialist glory. Prints were ideal for achieving these goals; reproducible and transportable, they fueled the sophisticated propaganda machine circulating images of Louis as both a man of war and a man of culture. This richly illustrated catalogue features more than one hundred prints from the Getty Research Institute and the Bibliotheque nationale de France in Paris, whose print collection Louis XIV established in 1667. An esteemed international group of contributors investigates the ways that cultural policies affected printmaking; explains what constitutes a print; describes how one became a printmaker; studies how prints were collected; and considers their reception in the ensuing centuries.A
Kingdom of Images is published to coincide with an exhibition on view at the Getty Research Institute from June 18 through September 6, 2015, and at the Bibliotheque nationale de France in Paris from November 2, 2015, through January 31, 2016.
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