Fancy in Eighteenth-Century European Visual Culture
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This collection of essays foregrounds fancy - and its close synonym caprice - as a distinct strand of the creative imagination in the period. Exploring a range of visual media, including prints, furniture, fans and gardens, it demonstrates that fancy was a key driver of aesthetics, art production and modes of consumption.

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This collection of essays foregrounds fancy - and its close synonym caprice - as a distinct strand of the creative imagination in the period. Exploring a range of visual media, including prints, furniture, fans and gardens, it demonstrates that fancy was a key driver of aesthetics, art production and modes of consumption.
Autorenporträt
Melissa Percival is Professor of French, Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter. She has published widely on theories of facial expression, fantasy figures and portraits, with particular reference to eighteenth-century France; these include a monograph on Fragonard's fantasy figures. Muriel Adrien is Associate Professor of art history and visual culture within the English Department at the University of Toulouse. She has published numerous articles on 18th and 19th-century British and American art, especially as related to scientific context. She is chief editor of the online scholarly journal Miranda.