[PDF] French Art Of The Eighteenth Century At The Huntington eBook

Author : Shelley M. Bennett
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,11 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300135947

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The themes that emerge from the study of The Huntington collection contribute to a nuanced understanding of French eighteenth-century domestic and cultural life and of the changing interpretations and continued popularity of French art among later collectors in America."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
Publisher : San Marino, Calif. : Huntington Library
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 47,38 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Art
ISBN :

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A standard guide to the splendid furnishings and accessories of eighteenth-century French decorative art acquired in part for the Huntington residence.

Author : Ronit Milano
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 20,16 MB
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9004276254

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In The Portrait Bust and French Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century, Ronit Milano probes the rich and complex aesthetic and intellectual charge of a remarkably concise art form, and explores its role as a powerful agent of epistemological change during one of the most seismic moments in French history. The pre-Revolutionary portrait bust was inextricably tied to the formation of modern selfhood and to the construction of individual identity during the Enlightenment, while positioning both sitters and viewers as part of a collective of individuals who together formed French society. In analyzing the contribution of the portrait bust to the construction of interiority and the formulation of new gender roles and political ideals, this book touches upon a set of concerns that constitute the very core of our modernity.

Author : Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
Publisher : Huntington Library Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 24,29 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :

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The Huntington Art Collections are famous for a large group of eighteenth-century British portraits. Around these paintings have been assembled other art objects of the same period, particularly drawings and watercolors, French paintings, French and English sculpture, tapestries, furniture, porcelain, and silver. This handbook offers a complete listing of these works of art, and all others in the Huntington collections. Almost all items are illustrated.

Author : Anca I. Lasc
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Design
ISBN : 0857857835

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Designing the French Interior traces France's central role in the development of the modern domestic interior, from the pre-revolutionary period to the 1970s, and addresses the importance of various media, including drawings, prints, pattern books, illustrated magazines, department store catalogs, photographs, guidebooks, and films, in representing and promoting French interior design to a wider audience. Contributors to this original volume identify and historicize the singularity of the modern French domestic interior as a generator of reproducible images, a site for display of both highly crafted and mass-produced objects, and the direct result of widely-circulated imagery in its own right. This important volume enables an invaluable new understanding of the relationship between architecture, interior spaces, material cultures, mass media and modernity.

Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 42,31 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Decoration and ornament
ISBN : 1588393666

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The authors, Danielle Kisluk-Grosheide and Jeffrey Munger, are curators in the Metropolitan Museum's Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts. They oversaw the recent reinstallation of the Wrightsman Galleries --Book Jacket.

Author : National Gallery (Great Britain)
Publisher : National Gallery Catalogues
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 46,75 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN :

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The impressive collection of 18th-century French paintings at the National Gallery, London, includes important works by Boucher, Chardin, David, Fragonard, Watteau, and many others. This volume presents over seventy detailed and extensively illustrated entries that expand our understanding of these paintings. Comprehensive research uncovers new information on provenance and on the lives of identified portrait sitters. Humphrey Wine explains the social and political contexts of many of the paintings, and an introductory essay looks at the attitude of 18th-century Britons to the French, as well as the market for 18th-century French paintings then in London salerooms. Published by National Gallery Company/Distributed by Yale University Press