French genre painting in the eighteenth century / edited by Philip Conisbee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Conisbee, Philip.

Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (U.S.)

Series:

Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.) ; 72.

Studies in the history of art (Washington, D.C.). Symposium papers ; 49.

Studies in the history of art, 0091-7338 ; 72. Symposium papers ; 49 / Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Genre painting, French--18th century--Congresses.

Genre painting, French.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

319 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington [D.C.] : National Gallery of Art ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, [2007]

Summary:

Imagined scenes of daily life by Watteau, Chardin, Fragonard, Greuze, and other 18th-century French artists are the subject of this important new study. The wide range of these artists' works encompasses domestic subjects, portraits and fashion plates, and depictions of stylish entertainments, seductions, and sentimental tales. Examples span the century, from the time of Louis XIV to the French Revolution. Fifteen distinguished scholars present their latest research into the contexts and meanings of French genre painting during this period. The authors offer a variety of critical and historical perspectives, covering such topics as the relationship of genre painting to contemporary life and to sexuality, sentiment, and "sensibilité "; its patrons and collectors; its popularization through reproduction in the print trade; its contemporary critical reception; and its resonances through subsequent centuries, continuing to our own time.

Contents:

Preface/ Elizabeth Cropper

Introduction / Philip Conisbee

Femininity and the hybridity of genre painting / Susan L. Siegfried

Man of mode: Watteau and the gendering of genre painting / Joan E. DeJean

Belonging to the in crowd: Watteau and the bonds of art and friendship / Julie Anne Plax

Upwardly mobile: genre painting and the conflict between landed and moneyed interests / Jörg Ebeling

Chardin at the edge of belief: overlooked issues of religion and dissent in eighteenth-century French painting / Thomas Crow

Putting the viewer in the frame: Greuze as sentimentalist / Emma Barker

The Greuze girl: the invention of a pictorial paradigm / Bernadette Fort

Painting paralysis: Filial Piety in 1763 / Kevin Chua

Greuze in limbo: being "betwixt and between" / Mark Ledbury

Genre and sex / Ewa Lajer-Burcharth

Sex, sentiment, and speculation: the market for genre prints on the eve of the French revolution / Kristel Smentek

Genre painting with Italy in mind / Richard Wrigley

Portraiture in the mode of genre: a social interpretation / Philippe Bordes

Nature and Moeurs: thoughts on the reception of genre painting in France / Christian Michel

Conclusion: Jeff Wall's Adrian Walker / Michael Fried.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Proceedings of a symposium held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Dec. 12-13, 2003.

ISBN:

9780300120240

0300120249

OCLC:

71173777

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