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How do seemingly disparate arenas of Enlightenment philosophy, economic theories, boudoir etiquette, literary styles and artistic modes coincide in the late 18th century? In this essay on the evolution of the idea of luxury and art, Remy Saisselin uses examples to describe the development of our modern taste, ultimately the successor of the more spiritual and grand Baroque gout. His analysis both illuminates and distinguishes between 18th-century and modern varieties of conspicuous consumption. This discourse depicts the rise of "luxe" as an escape from ennui and shows how, for the first time in European history, a large class of wealthy, leisured people emerged to make art, luxury and the avoidance of boredom its preoccupation.
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Rémy G. Saisselin is Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and the University of Rochester. He is the author ofThe Bourgeois and the Bibelot (1984) and The Literary Enterprise in Eighteenth-Century France (1979).
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- EditoreUniv of California Pr
- Data di pubblicazione1992
- ISBN 10 0520072952
- ISBN 13 9780520072954
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine164
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The Enlightenment Against the Baroque Economics & Aesthetics in the Eighteenth Century
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Descrizione libro Condizione: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:9780520072954. Codice articolo 9921620
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The Enlightenment Against the Baroque. Economics and Aesthetics in the Eighteenth Century.
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Descrizione libro Cloth with dustjacket. Condizione: Gut. 156 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag leicht berieben, Bleistifteintrag auf Vorsatz, sonst sehr guter Zustand / dust jacket slightly rubbed, pencil entry on endpaper, otherwise very good condition. - How do the seemingly disparate arenas of Enlightenment philosophy, economic theories, boudoir etiquette, literary styles, and artistic modes coincide in the late eighteenth century? In his poetic essay on the evolution of the idea of luxury and art, Rémy Saisselin plots their intersection through precise, witty examples. Saisselin convincingly describes the development of our modern taste, ultimately the successor of the more spiritual and grand baroque goût. His analysis both illuminates and distinguishes between eighteenth-century and modern varieties of conspicuous consumption. In this elegant and persuasive Pascalian disquisition, Saisselin depicts the rise of luxe as an escape from ennui, especially for its major proponents like Madame de Pompadour. Further, the author shows that in the eighteenth century, for the first time in European history, a significantly large class of wealthy, leisured people emerged to make art, luxury, and the avoidance of boredom more widespread preoccupations than previously thought. By drawing on a wide variety of contexts, Saisselin provides a lucid picture of the first phases in the emergence of a specifically bourgeois taste arising from the contradictions between luxury and economic theory. / Contents Introduction 1. Pascal s Room, Mandeville s Bees, and Baroque Spending Art or Luxury? Luxury as Disease 2. "Doing In" the Baroque Were the Court and the Parisian Social Elite of the Eighteenth Century a Consumer Society? Redesigning the Ancien Régime The Earthly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophes 3. True Taste Recovered and the Baroque Transfigured Changing Appearances: From Court to Beau Monde Conclusion: The End of the Baroque and the Invention of Aesthetic Art Bibliography Index. ISBN 9780520072954 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 377. Codice articolo 1184546
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