Making Ideas Visible in the Eighteenth Century.

This volume considers how ideas were made visible through the making of art and visual experience occasioned by reception during the long eighteenth century. The event that gave rise to the collection was the 15th David Nochol Smith Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies, which launched a new Austral...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2022
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Place / Publishing House:Newark : : University of Delaware Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (236 p.) :; 46 b-w images, 26 color images
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Table of Contents --
Acknowledgements --
List of Illustrations --
Introduction. The Potential Vısibility of Ideas in Enlightenment Art and Aesthetics --
Chapter 1 A Good Address: Living at the Louvre in the Eighteenth Century --
Chapter 2 Inventing Artifice: François Boucher’s Collection at the Louvre --
Chapter 3 Continental Porcelain Made in England: The Case of the Chelsea Porcelain Factory --
Chapter 4 Planting Cosmopolitan Ideals: Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest --
Chapter 5 Growing Old in Public in Eighteenth- Century France: Marie-Thérèse Geoffrin and Marie Leszczynska --
Chapter 6 French Funerary Monuments of the Ancien Régime as the Product of Individual Artistic Solutions --
Chapter 7 Meeting the Locals: Mythical Images of the Indigenous Other in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries --
Chapter 8 Infernal Machines: Designing the Bomb Vessel as Transnational Technology --
Notes on Contributors --
Index
Summary:This volume considers how ideas were made visible through the making of art and visual experience occasioned by reception during the long eighteenth century. The event that gave rise to the collection was the 15th David Nochol Smith Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies, which launched a new Australian and New Zealand Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies. Two strands of interest are explored by the individual authors. The first four essays work with ideas about material objects and identity formation, suggesting how the artist's physical environment contributes to the sense of self, as a practicing artist or artisan, as an individual patron or collector, or as a woman or religious outsider. The last four essays address the intellectual work that can be expressed through or performed by objects. Through a consideration of the material formation of concepts, this book explores questions that are implicated by the need to see ideas in painted, sculpted, illustrated, and designed forms. In doing so, it introduces new visual materials and novel conceptual models into traditional accounts of the intellectual history of the Enlightenment.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781644532355
9783110992809
9783110992816
9783110993899
9783110994810
9783110766479
DOI:10.36019/9781644532355?locatt=mode:legacy
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Hierarchical level:Monograph