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Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, Date: 2006. Wraps. Fine. To admire the seductively brilliant works of Francois Boucher (1703-70), Denis Diderot decreed, was to be a stranger 'to the truth, to just ideas, and to the seriousness of art.' Making Up the Rococo challenges the long-standing critical disregard for Boucher's oeuvre and for rococo aesthetics in general, offering an engaging analysis of the cultural and artistic implications of makeup and of making up social, gender, and painterly identities." Tall octavo: x, 255 p. with numerous illustrations (some color). Original pictorial paper wrappers. A fine copy. 2006. Getty Research Institute ISBN 0892367431 US
Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, Date: 2006. Wraps. Fine. To admire the seductively brilliant works of Francois Boucher (1703-70), Denis Diderot decreed, was to be a stranger 'to the truth, to just ideas, and to the seriousness of art.' Making Up the Rococo challenges the long-standing critical disregard for Boucher's oeuvre and for rococo aesthetics in general, offering an engaging analysis of the cultural and artistic implications of makeup and of making up social, gender, and painterly identities." Tall octavo: x, 255 p. with numerous illustrations (some color). Original pictorial paper wrappers. A fine copy. 2006. Getty Research Institute ISBN 0892367431 9780892367436 [US]
ISBN10: 0892367431, ISBN13: 9780892367436, [publisher: Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles] Softcover "To admire the seductively brilliant works of Francois Boucher (1703-70), Denis Diderot decreed, was to be a stranger 'to the truth, to just ideas, and to the seriousness of art.' Making Up the Rococo challenges the long-standing critical disregard for Boucher's oeuvre and for rococo aesthetics in general, offering an engaging analysis of the cultural and artistic implications of makeup and of making up social, gender, and painterly identities." Tall octavo: x, 255 p. with numerous illustrations (some color). Original pictorial paper wrappers. A fine copy. [Covina, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2006]
Oxford University Press, Incorporated. Used - Very Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Oxford University Press, Incorporated ISBN 0892367431 9780892367436 [GB]
ISBN10: 0892367431, ISBN13: 9780892367436, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated] Softcover Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. [Dunfermline, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2006]
Getty Research Institute, Date: 2006-02-15. Paperback. Like New. 10x7x0. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. x, 255 p., ill., 26 cm. 2006. Getty Research Institute ISBN 0892367431 9780892367436 [US]
Getty Research Institute 2006-02-15 Paperback Like New Size: 10x7x0; Softcover. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked pages. x, 255 p., ill., 26 cm.
ISBN10: 0892367431, ISBN13: 9780892367436, [publisher: Getty Research Institute] Softcover Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting. 1.65 [Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2006]
ISBN10: 0892367431, ISBN13: 9780892367436, [publisher: Getty Research Institute] Softcover First Edition Condition: New. Still wrapped in plastic. International shipping will be extra. Thanks! [Birmingham, AL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2006]
Getty Research Institute, Date: 2006. Paperback. Like New. 112x11x160. LIKE NEW. Very Clean. No writing or tears. Never Read. 2006. Getty Research Institute ISBN 0892367431 9780892367436 [US]
ISBN10: 0892367431, ISBN13: 9780892367436, [publisher: Getty Research Institute] Softcover LIKE NEW. Very Clean. No writing or tears. Never Read. [Batesville, IN, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2006]
ISBN10: 0892367431, ISBN13: 9780892367436, [publisher: Getty Research Institute] Softcover First Edition Softcover in overall good shape with light general wear. Binding firm and square. clean throughout. [Clearfield, PA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2006]
Museum Publications. New. Date: 2006. Paperback. 0892367431 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** - *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy, like new, pristine, never opened -- 272 pages; 18 color and 53 b/w illustrations. Description: "In 1761, Denis Diderot ascribed the fabulous success enjoyed by François Boucher (1703–1770) to "the libertinage, the brilliancy, the pompons, the bosoms and bottoms" that proliferated in the artist's canvases. For while Boucher's art charmed nouveau riche buyers and titled patrons, this was not always the case with critics, and modern scholarship has done little to challenge Diderot's eventual judgment that to admire Boucher's work is to be a stranger to "real taste, to the truth, to just ideas, and to the seriousness of art." This engaging study examines the motives behind the contemporaneous critical response to Boucher's picturesque repertoire of amorous peasants, blithe aristocrats, and fanciful mythological scenes, and to the rococo style in general. The vision of the rococo (feminine, aristocratic, decadent) and of Boucher (facile, libertine, debauched) that lingers in modern art history was invented by eighteenth-century critics bent on reform, both aesthetic and political. Exploring how the discrediting of Boucher and his school intersected with cultural debates about gender and class, this account o ...
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