Watteau and the Cultural Politics of Eighteenth-Century France [Hardcover]

Julie Anne Plax (Author)

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Hardcover: 274 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1st Edition edition (Aug 15 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 052164268X
ISBN-13: 978-0521642682
Product Dimensions: 2.6 x 1.9 x 0.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 798 g

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"Carefully and clearly argued, Plax's book sets a model for actively integrating visual, historical and theoretical concerns." CAA Reviews

"Plax does well to call our attention in a new way to this capacity for transformation of self and culture represented by Watteau's figures." Eighteenth-Century Studies

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In Watteau and the Cultural Politics of Eighteenth-Century France, Julie Anne Plax engages in an interdisciplinary examination of several categories of Watteau's paintings--theatrical, military, fetes, and the art dealer. Arguing that Watteau consistently applied coherent strategies of representation aimed at subverting high art, she shows how his paintings toyed ironically with conventions and genres and confounded traditional categories. Plax connects these strategies to broader cultural themes and political issues that Watteau's art addressed throughout his career, thereby revealing the substantial unity of his oeuvre.

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