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Title Making Ideas Visible in the Eighteenth Century / edited by Jennifer Milam & Nicola Parsons
Published Newark, Delaware : University of Delaware Press, 2022
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Description 1 online resource (241 pages)
Series Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture
University of Delaware Press studies in 17th- and 18th- century art and culture.
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
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
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 19, 2022)
Subject Art, Modern -- 18th century.
Art objects -- Psychological aspects
ART -- General.
Art, Modern
Form Electronic book
Author Milam, Jennifer
Parsons, Nicola
Maskill, David
Priebe, Jessica
Martin, Matthew J
Fripp, Jessica
Windorf, Wiebke
Cooper, Melanie
Ferng, Jennifer
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