Making ideas visible in the eighteenth century
"This volume considers how ideas were made visible through the making of art and visual experiences occasioned by reception during the long eighteenth century. Contributors consider the approach taken by individual artists and the material formation of concepts in different contexts by asking n...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Milam, Jennifer Dawn, 1968- editor. Parsons, Nicola, 1976- editor. |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Newark, Delaware : University of Delaware Press, 2021. |
| Series: | University of Delaware Press studies in 17th- and 18th- century art and culture.
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| Online Access: | Available in ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete. |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The potential visibility of ideas in Enlightenment art and aesthetics / Jennifer Milam and Nicola Parsons
- 1. A good address : living at the Louvre in the eighteenth century / David Maskill
- 2. Inventing artifice : François Boucher's collection at the Louvre / Jessica Priebe
- 3. Continental porcelain made in England : the case of the Chelsea Porcelain Factory / Matthew Martin
- 4. Planting cosmopolitan ideals : Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest / Jennifer Milam
- 5. Growing old in public in eighteenth-century France : Marie-Thérèse Geoffrin and Marie Leszczyńska / Jessica L. Fripp
- 6. French funerary monuments of the ancien régime as the product of individual artistic solutions / Wiebke Windorf
- 7. Meeting the locals : mythical images of the Indigenous Other in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Melanie Cooper
- 8. Infernal machines : designing the bomb vessel as transnational technology / Jennifer Ferng.