TY - BOOK ID - 61522951 TI - "Fancy" in eighteenth-century European visual culture AU - Percival, Melissa AU - Adrien, Muriel AU - Liverpool University Press AU - University of Oxford PY - 2020 SN - 9781789620030 1789620031 PB - Liverpool Oxford Liverpool University Press Voltaire Foundation DB - UniCat KW - Art KW - History of civilization KW - fancy pictures KW - fancy work KW - Chinoiserie KW - anno 1700-1799 KW - Europe KW - Fantaisie KW - Morale KW - Civilisation KW - Fantasy in art. KW - Fancy pictures KW - Fancy work KW - Figure painting KW - Portrait painting, European KW - Face in art. KW - Human figure in art. KW - Figure painting. KW - Portrait painting, European. KW - 1700-1799 KW - Europe. KW - Social life and customs KW - Art, European KW - Ethics, Modern KW - Civilization KW - beeldcultuur UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:61522951 AB - Fancy in the eighteenth century was part of a rich semantic network, connecting wit, whimsicality, erotic desire, spontaneity, deviation from norms and triviality. It was also a contentious term, signifying excess, oddness and irrationality, liable to offend taste, reason and morals. This collection of essays foregrounds fancy - and its close synonym, caprice - as a distinct strand of the imagination in the period. As a prevalent, coherent and enduring concept in aesthetics and visual culture, it deserves a more prominent place in scholarly understanding than it has hitherto occupied. Fancy is here understood as a type of creative output that deviated from rules and relished artistic freedom. It was also a mode of audience response, entailing a high degree of imaginative engagement with playful, quirky artworks, generating pleasure, desire or anxiety. Emphasizing commonalities between visual productions in different media from diverse locations, the authors interrogate and celebrate the expressive freedom of fancy in European visual culture. Topics include: the seductive fictions of the fancy picture, Fragonard and galanterie, fancy in drawing manuals, pattern books and popular prints, fans and fancy goods, chinoiserie, excess and virtuality in garden design, Canaletto's British 'capricci', urban design in Madrid, and Goya's 'Caprichos'. ER -