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Author(s):	Oliver Wunsch

Date:	2024	Format:	epub	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0271095288
Pages:	192	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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Eighteenth-century France witnessed an unprecedented proliferation of materially unstable art, from oil paintings that cracked within years of their creation to enormous pastel portraits vulnerable to the slightest touch or vibration. In A Delicate Matter, Oliver Wunsch traces these artistic practices to the economic and social conditions that enabled them: an ascendant class of art collectors who embraced fragile objects as a means of showcasing their disposable wealth.
While studies of Rococo art have traditionally focused on style and subject matter, this book reveals how the physical construction of paintings and sculptures was central to the periods reconceptualization of art. Drawing on sources ranging from eighteenth-century artists writings to twenty-first-century laboratory analyses, Wunsch demonstrates how the technical practices of eighteenth-century painters and sculptors provoked a broad transformation in the relationship between art, time, and money. Delicacy, which began the eighteenth century as a commodified extension of courtly sociability, was by centurys end reimagined as the irreducible essence of arts autonomous value.
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