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The mobile image from Watteau to Boucher / David Pullins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pullins, David, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Watteau, Antoine, 1684-1721.
- Watteau, Antoine.
- Oudry, Jean-Baptiste, 1686-1755.
- Oudry, Jean-Baptiste.
- Boucher, François, 1703-1770.
- Boucher, François.
- Art, French--18th century.
- Art, French.
- Art--Copying.
- Art.
- Art--Themes, motives.
- Drawing books.
- Pattern books--France.
- Pattern books.
- Artists' studios--France.
- Artists' studios.
- Art--Study and teaching--France.
- theme.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 199 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, [2024]
- Biography/History:
- David Pullins is Jayne Wrightsman Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he is responsible for seventeenth-and eighteenth-century French, Italian, and Spanish painting.
- Summary:
- "Reframing long-held assumptions about what distinguishes fine from decorative art, this innovative study explores a mode of making, seeing, and thinking that slices across eighteenth-century visual culture"-- Provided by publisher.
- "This book provides a new way of thinking about eighteenth-century French art and visual culture by prioritizing production over reception. Abandoning the ideologically driven discourse that distinguished fine from decorative art between the 1690s and 1770s, The Mobile Image reveals how the two have been inextricably bound from the earliest stages of artistic instruction through the daily life of painters' workshops. In this study, author David Pullins defines artisanal and artistic means of learning, seeing, and making through a system of "mobile images": motifs that were effectively engineered for mobility and designed never to be definitive, always awaiting replication and circulation. He examines the careers of Antoine Watteau, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, and François Boucher, situating them against a much broader cast of actors - such as printmakers, publishers, anonymous studio assistants, and architects, among others - to place eighteenth-century painting within a wider context of media and making"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: A cut-and-paste modality
- Learning the image as an object
- Objects and the arabesque
- Fractured canvases: recycling and collaboration
- Miserable places to fill.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781606068885
- 1606068881
- OCLC:
- 1401962127
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