Stacey Sloboda

Chinoiserie

Commerce and critical ornament in eighteenth-century Britain

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A critical reassessment of chinoiserie, a style both praised and derided for its triviality, prettiness, and ornamental excesses

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 847g
• ISBN-13: 9780719089459
• ISBN-10: 071908945X
• Artikelnr.: 40478433

Autorenporträt

Stacey Sloboda is Associate Professor of Art History at Southern Illinois University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Reassessing chinoiserie 1. Making china: circulation
imitation and innovation 2. Buying china: commerce
taste and materialism 3. Commerce in the bedroom: sex
gender and social status 4. Commerce in the garden: nature
art and authority Conclusion: Style and the global marketplace Bibliography Index