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Author Yonan, MichaelE

Title The Cultural Aesthetics of Eighteenth-Century Porcelain
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (244 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Plates and Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Rethinking the Arcanum: Porcelain, Secrecy, and the Eighteenth-Century Culture of Invention; 2 The Nature of Artifice: French Porcelain Flowers and the Rhetoric of the Garnish; 3 Igneous Architecture: Porcelain, Natural Philosophy, and the Rococo cabinet chinois; 4 Marketing Celebrity: Porcelain and Theatrical Display; 5 Balancing Act: Andrea Brustolon's ""La Forza"" and the Display of Imported Porcelain in Eighteenth-Century Venice
6 The Queen's NĂ©cessaire7 Porcelain, Print Culture and Mercantile Aesthetics; 8 Sugar Boxes and Blackamoors: Ornamental Blackness in Early Meissen Porcelain; 9 Ties That Bind: Relations Between the Royal Academy of San Fernando and the Royal Porcelain Factory of the Buen Retiro; Select Bibliography; Index
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Subject Porcelain -- 18th century.
Art and society -- History -- 18th century
Art and society
Porcelain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Yonan, Assoc. Prof. Michael E
ISBN 9781351545204
1351545205