François Boucher: Sociability, Mondanité and the Academy in

François Boucher: Sociability, Mondanité and the Academy in the Age of Louis XV

This volume assembles a group of interrelated thought-provoking essays from leading international scholars in the field originally presented at the conference Boucher and the Enlightenment, held at the Wallace Collection, London . The conference was one of a series of extraordinary events celebrating the tercentenary of the artistâ€™s birth: exhibitions were held in Paris, Dijon, London and New York, a conference was dedicated to the artistâ€™s work at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and a number of associated ground-breaking publications were published. All were agreed on the significance of Boucherâ€™s achievement, his contemporary success and the startlingly rapid critical decline. Yet, although much valuable new research was presented elsewhere regarding the connoisseurship, interpretation and critical reception of Boucherâ€™s work, the Wallace Collection conference was outstanding in its emphasis on the essentially social nature of Boucherâ€™s artistic enterprise, the seriousness of his artistic ambition, and how the artistic relationships he forged both influenced his artistic practice and affected his critical reputation for both good and bad. Subsequent research in eighteenth-century studies has confirmed many of the ideas first posited at the conference, but no other major publication on the artist has appeared in the intervening ten-year period that has been able to present or benefit from the advances made at the Wallace Collection. It has thus become increasingly obvious that the original conference papers, unpublished at the time, should be issued. The papers have been revised and enriched with further original research, incorporating important recent discoveries and trends in Boucher scholarship. Taken as a whole, the essays present a wealth of new material concerning Boucherâ€™s social and professional relationships to his patrons, dealers and fellow artists, which in turn illuminate, as no subsequent publication has done, his extraordinary position at the crossroads of the fine, decorative, literary and musical arts of his time. The book includes a variety of inter-disciplinary topics including new biographical information regarding Boucherâ€™s life, artistic practices and relationships, while new research is also published regarding the detailed connoisseurship and dating of his work alongside new interpretations of its iconography and critical and commercial reception. The diverse subject matter and variety of art-historical approach of the essays open up new perspectives in our understanding not only of FranÃ§ois Boucher but also of the wider cultural and social context of his time. Together they shed new light on Boucherâ€™s significance as one of the most original and controversial artists of the eighteenth century. The volume is the first major work on the artist to appear in recent years.
Country USA
Binding Hardcover
EAN 9780993658839
ISBN 0993658830
Label Mosaic Press
Manufacturer Mosaic Press
NumberOfPages 360
PublicationDate 2017-04-01
Publisher Mosaic Press
Studio Mosaic Press
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Binding	Hardcover
EAN	9780993658839
ISBN	0993658830
Label	Mosaic Press
Manufacturer	Mosaic Press
NumberOfPages	360
PublicationDate	2017-04-01
Publisher	Mosaic Press
Studio	Mosaic Press
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

François Boucher: Sociability, Mondanité and the Academy in the Age of Louis XV

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