Making Ideas Visible in the Eighteenth Century.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Cooper, Melanie,; Ferng, Jennifer,; Fripp, Jessica L.,; Martin, Matthew,; Maskill, David,; Milam, Jennifer,; Parsons, Nicola,; Priebe, Jessica,; Windorf, Wiebke,
• Place / Publishing House: Newark : : University of Delaware Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (236 p.) :; 46 b-w images, 26 color images

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...

Table of Contents

• 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