The Painter's Touch
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-17012-1 (ISBN)
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A new interpretation of the development of artistic modernity in eighteenth-century France The Painter's Touch is a radical reinterpretation of three paradigmatic French painters of the eighteenth century. In this beautifully illustrated book, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth provides close readings of the works of Francois Boucher, Jean-Simeon Chardin, and Jean-Honore Fragonard, entirely recasting our understanding of these painters' practice. Using the notion of touch, she examines the implications of their strategic investment in materiality and sheds light on the distinct contribution of painting to the culture of the Enlightenment. Lajer-Burcharth traces how the distinct logic of these painters' work--the operation of surface in Boucher, the deep materiality of Chardin, and the dynamic morphological structure in Fragonard--contributed to the formation of artistic identity. Through the notion of touch, she repositions these painters in the artistic culture of their time, shifting attention from institutions such as the academy and the Salon to the realms of the market, the medium, and the body.
Lajer-Burcharth analyzes Boucher's commercial tact, Chardin's interiorized craft, and Fragonard's materialization of eros. Foregrounding the question of experience--that of the painters and of the people they represent--she shows how painting as a medium contributed to the Enlightenment's discourse on the self in both its individual and social functions. By examining what paintings actually "say" in brushstrokes, texture, and paint, The Painter's Touch transforms our understanding of the role of painting in the emergence of modernity and provides new readings of some of the most important and beloved works of art of the era.
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth is the William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts at Harvard University. Her books include Chardin Material and Necklines: The Art of Jacques-Louis David after the Terror.
Acknowledgments xii
Introduction 3
1 BOUCHER'S TACT 8
Materiality and Personality 9
Touch and Tact 13
The Commercial Imagination 22
Personal Mythologies 33
The Promiscuous Self 47
The Artist as Consumer 73
Pompadour's Painter 80
2 CHARDIN'S CRAFT 86
Deep Materiality 87
The Object (Inside/Out) 95
The Blind Touch 111
Underneath the Visible 123
The Subject 139
The Return to the Object 155
The Painter 165
3 FRAGONARD'S SEDUCTION 176
Eros and Individuality 177
The Unseen 186
Being and Becoming 191
Pictorial Seduction 199
The Erotic Mother 203
The Artist's Pleasure 208
The Painter's Touch 212
Love and Life 223
Ars Erotica 236
Notes 238
Bibliography 271
Index 287
Image Credits 297
Erscheinungsdatum | 17.01.2018 |
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Zusatzinfo | 154 color + 104 b/w illus. |
Verlagsort | New Jersey |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 216 x 292 mm |
Gewicht | 1389 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik | |
ISBN-10 | 0-691-17012-6 / 0691170126 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-17012-1 / 9780691170121 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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