Watteau and the Cultural Politics of Eighteenth-Century France (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521200844)

In Watteau and the Cultural Politics of Eighteenth-Century France, Julie Anne Plax engages in an interdisciplinary examination of several categories of Watteau's paintings--theatrical, military, fetes, and the art dealer. Arguing that Watteau consistently applied coherent strategies of representation aimed at subverting high art, she shows how his paintings toyed ironically with conventions and genres and confounded traditional categories. Plax connects these strategies to broader cultural themes and political issues that Watteau's art addressed throughout his career, thereby revealing the substantial unity of his oeuvre.

Author: Julie Anne Plax
ISBN-10: 0521200849
ISBN-13: 9780521200844
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/28/2011
Pages: 274
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.58d