'Fancy' in eighteenth-century European visual culture
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'Fancy' in eighteenth-century European visual culture
（Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment, 2020:04）
Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford, c2020
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"Fancy" in eighteenth-century European visual culture
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Description
Fancy in the eighteenth century
was part of a rich semantic network, connecting wit, whimsicality, erotic
desire, spontaneity, deviation from norms and triviality. It was also a contentious term, signifying excess,
oddness and irrationality, liable to offend taste, reason and morals. This
collection of essays foregrounds fancy - and its close synonym, caprice - as a
distinct strand of the imagination in the period. As a prevalent, coherent and enduring concept in aesthetics
and visual culture, it deserves a more
prominent place in scholarly understanding than it has hitherto occupied. Fancy is here understood as a type of creative output
that deviated from rules and relished artistic freedom. It was also a mode of
audience response, entailing a high degree of imaginative engagement with
playful, quirky artworks, generating pleasure, desire or anxiety. Emphasizing
commonalities between visual productions in different media from diverse
locations, the authors interrogate and celebrate the expressive freedom of
fancy in European visual culture. Topics
include: the seductive fictions of the fancy picture, Fragonard and galanterie, fancy in drawing manuals,
pattern books and popular prints, fans and fancy goods, chinoiserie, excess and virtuality in garden design, Canaletto's
British 'capricci', urban design in Madrid, and Goya's 'Caprichos'.
Table of Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Melissa Percival - Introduction
Emmanuel Faure-Carricaburu - The fantasy figures of Jean-Baptiste Santerre and the limits of generic frameworks of interpretation
Christophe Guillouet - The Parisian world of printmaking at the heart of the invention of a genre? Poilly, Courtin and Bonnart's fantaisies (1713-1728)
John Chu - Windows of opportunity: the French fantasy figure and the spirit of enterprise in early-eighteenth-century Europe
Martin Postle - Modelling for the fancy picture in eighteenth-century England
Benedicte Miyamoto - The influence of drawing manuals on the British practice and reception of fancy pictures
Guillaume Faroult - A galant fantasy: Fragonard's fantasy figures and The Music lesson in relation to Van Dyck, Watteau and Carle Vanloo
Pierre-Henri Biger - Fans, fantasy and fancy
Melissa Percival - Fancy as a mode of consumption
Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding - 'A butterfly supporting an elephant': chinoiserie, fantaisie and 'the luxuriance of fancy'
Laurent Chatel - The garden as capriccio: the hortulan pleasures of imagination and virtuality
Beatrice Laurent - Grand Tour capricci
Xavier Cervantes - Venetian reminiscences and cultural hybridity in Canaletto's English-period capricci and vedute
Adrian Fernandez Almoguera - From the private cabinet to the suburban villa: caprices and fantasies in eighteenth-century Madrid
Andrew Schulz - Satire and fantasy in Goya's Caprichos
Alice Labourg - 'Fancy paints with hues unreal': pictorial fantasy and literary creation in Ann Radcliffe's Gothic novels
Summaries
List of contributors
Bibliography
Index
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