The painter's touch : Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard
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The painter's touch : Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard
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The work The painter's touch : Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Cleveland Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.
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- The painter's touch : Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard
- Title remainder
- Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard
- Statement of responsibility
- Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "What can be gained from considering a painting not only as an image but also a material object? How does the painter's own experience of the process of making matter for our understanding of both the painting and its maker? The Painter's Touch addresses these questions to offer a radical reinterpretation of three paradigmatic French painters of the eighteenth century. In this beautifully illustrated book, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth provides close readings of the works of François Boucher, Jean-Siméon Chardin, and Jean-Honoré Fragonard, entirely recasting our understanding of these painters' practice. Using the notion of touch, she examines the implications of their strategic investment in materiality and sheds light on the distinct contribution of painting to the culture of the Enlightenment. Lajer-Burcharth traces how the distinct logic of these painters' work--the operation of surface in Boucher, the deep materiality of Chardin, and the dynamic morphological structure in Fragonard--contributed to the formation of artistic identity. Through the notion of touch, she repositions these painters in the artistic culture of their time, shifting attention from institutions such as the academy and the Salon to the realms of the market, the medium, and the body. Lajer-Burcharth analyzes Boucher's commercial tact, Chardin's interiorized craft, and Fragonard's materialization of eros. Foregrounding the question of experience--that of the painters and of the people they represent--she shows how painting as a medium contributed to the Enlightenment's discourse on the self in both its individual and social functions. By examining what paintings actually "say" in brushstrokes, texture, and paint, The Painter's Touch transforms our understanding of the role of painting in the emergence of modernity and provides new readings of some of the most important and beloved works of art of the era."--Publisher's description
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 759.4
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- ND546
- LC item number
- .L35 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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