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Antoine Watteau : perspectives on the artist and the culture of his time / edited by Mary D. Sheriff.

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Fine Arts Library ND553.W3 A93 2006
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Sheriff, Mary D.
Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721.
Series:
University of Delaware Press studies in 17th- and 18th- century art and culture
University of Delaware Press studies in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century art and culture
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721--Criticism and interpretation.
Watteau, Antoine.
Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721.
Art and society--France--History--18th century.
Art and society.
History.
Criticism and interpretation.
France.
Physical Description:
201 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Place of Publication:
Newark : University of Delaware ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, [2006]
Contents:
Introduction: The Mystique of Antoine Watteau / Mary D. Sheriff 17
Interpreting Watteau across the Centuries / Julie-Anne Plax 28
Watteau Drawings: Artful and Natural / JoLynn Edwards 41
The Monarchy, Public Opinion, and the Subversions of Antoine Watteau / Thomas E. Kaiser 63
Style as Subject in Watteau's Images of Conversation / Mary Vidal 76
Watteau's fete galante and the Artful Body / Sarah R. Cohen 94
Watteau and Theater: Movable Fetes / Suzanne R. Pucci 106
The Flickers of Seduction: The Ambivalent and Surprising Painting of Watteau / Nicholas Mirzoeff 123
Clothing in the Age of Watteau / Reed Benhamou 133
Gersaint's Shopsign and the World of Art Dealing in Eighteenth-Century Paris / Andrew McClellan 150
Plates 161.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-192) and index.
ISBN:
0874139341
OCLC:
63108342
Publisher Number:
9780874139341

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