You might also like

Availability alert

More about Rethinking Boucher

• Book details
• Synopsis
• Trending among others

You get 158 loyalty points

Book synopsis

Francois Boucher (1703 - 1770) has suffered a curious fate: to have been so identified with the French Rococo as to have lost his visibility as an artist in his own right. "Rethinking Boucher" reclaims the artist's individuality, revealing not only the diversity of his talents but also the variety of visual and intellectual traditions with which he engaged. In part one, "The Various Boucher," Melissa Hyde, Colin Bailey, and Martin Schieder examine the artist's identity in relation to his portraits and self-portraits, his ingenious genre scenes, and his overlooked religious paintings. In part two, "The Unexpected Boucher," Katie Scott, Mark Ledbury, and Mary D. Sheriff focus on the network of social and cultural contexts in which the artist functioned, including the commercial print market, the theaters of Paris, and the contemporary textual explorations of the exotic. In the final part, "The Enlightened Boucher," Rene Demoris, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, and Thomas M. Kavanagh discuss Boucher's work as a vehicle for Enlightenment visions of the body, whether conjured by Denis Diderot and Jean-Jacques Rousseau or Madame de Pompadour, Boucher's most famous patron.

Book details

Book category Books in English The arts Art treatments & subjects Individual artists, art monographs

• Full title: Rethinking Boucher
• Author: .. Hyde
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780892368259
• ISBN: 089236825X
• ID: 04947497
• Publisher: Getty Trust Publications
• Weight: 850 g
• Dimensions: 254 × 180 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 12. October 2006

Trending among others

---

---

---