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Geo-Narratives of a Filial Son
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ISBN: 9780674088436 0674088433 9781684175642 168417564X Year: 2016 Publisher: Boston Leiden;Boston Harvard University Asia Center BRILL

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Watteau's painted conversations : art, literature, and talk in seventeenth- and eigtheenth-century France
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ISBN: 0300054807 Year: 1992 Publisher: Londen Yale University Press

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Antoine Watteau painted his engaging and ravishing 'fetes galantes' during a period in which the art of polite conversation flousrished in France. In this innovative study, Mary Vidal shows that conversation was central to Watteau's images of socialibility, providing the framework for figural and formal relationships even in his military, mythological, theatrical, and religious works. Vidal argues that Watteau's painted conversations were not mere literal descriptions of social behavior but represented conversation as part of an aesthetic, linguistic, and ethical system, as an art of living. Vidal shows that Watteau's focus on conversation was related to developments in seventeenth-and eighteenth-century France: the rise and elaboration of an art of conversation, the connection between polite discourse and the redefinition of the nobility, the flourishing of women's salons in Paris and the development of the literary genre of the written conversation. In his conversational artmaking, Watteau set up complex dialogic relationships between spoken words and images, art and society, viewers and viewed.

Word and image : French painting of the Ancien Régime
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ISBN: 0521237769 Year: 1981 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press


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La peinture monumentale d'histoire dans les édifices civils en Belgique (1830-1914)
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ISSN: 03787923 ISBN: 2803101661 9782803101665 Year: 1999 Volume: 16 Publisher: Bruxelles Académie royale de Belgique


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Icon to narrative : the rise of the dramatic close-up in fifteenth-century devotional painting.
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ISBN: 9070288141 Year: 1984 Publisher: Doornspijk : Davaco,

History painting reassessed : the representation of history in contemporary art
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ISBN: 0719051673 0719051681 9780719051685 9780719051678 Year: 2000 Publisher: Manchester : Manchester university press,

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