History, painting, and the seriousness of pleasure in the age of Louis XV

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History, painting, and the seriousness of pleasure in the age of Louis XV

Susanna Caviglia

(Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment, 2020:02)

Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford, c2020

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-268) and index

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内容説明

French painting of Louis XV's reign (1715-74), generally categorized by the term rococo, has typically been understood as an artistic style aimed at furnishing courtly society with delightful images of its own frivolous pursuits. Instead, this book shows the significance and seriousness underpinning the notion of pleasure embedded in eighteenth-century history painting. During this time, pleasure became a moral ideal grounded not only in domestic life but also defining a range of social, political, and cultural transactions oriented toward transforming and improving society at large. History, painting, and the seriousness of pleasure in the age of Louis XV reconsiders the role of history painting in creating a new visual language that presented peace and happiness as an individual's natural rights in the aftermath of Louis XIV's bellicose reign (1643-1715). In this new study, Susanna Caviglia reinvestigates the artistic practices of an entire generation of painters born around 1700 (e.g. Francois Boucher, Charles-Joseph Natoire, and Carle Vanloo) in order to highlight the cultural forces at work within their now iconic images.

目次

List of illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Historical perspective: the peaceable kingdom of Louis XV The painters Toward a new artistic idiom I. Historia in stasis Chapter 1: The action de repos Prolegomena to the theory and practice Meditation, contemplation The dynamic body suspended Narrative disrupted Moments in the present and the future Chapter 2: Corporeality and repose Fontenelle's ideal Corporeal conversations Figures of seduction The expression of repose From narrative representation to figural presentation II. The figure in artistic practice Chapter 3: Figure/study/artwork Copying the figure The whole and the part The emergence of corporeal repose The new body language Chapter 4: The story beyond the figure From study to subject Autonomous figures in painting Repertoires of models Life study and historical subject III. The fabrication of a new grand genre Chapter 5: Before the painting The figure: from the idea to the painting The emergence of new creative practices The single body and the multiplication of bodies The figure: from reuse to quotation Chapter 6: Epilogue: on novelty in painting Brand new beauties The painting of the present Bibliography Index

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