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This original and relevant book investigates the relationship between intellectual property and the visual arts in France from the 16th century to the French Revolution. It charts the early history of privilege legislation (today's copyright and patent) for books and inventions, and the translation of its legal terms by and for the image. Those terms are explored in their force of law and in relation to artistic discourse and creative practice in the early modern period. The consequences of commercially motivated law for art and its definitions, specifically its eventual separation from industry, are important aspects of the story. The artists who were caught up in disputes about intellectual property ranged from the officers of the Academy down to the lowest hacks of Grub Street. Lessons from this book may still apply in the 21st century; with the advent of inexpensive methods of reproduction, multiplication, and dissemination via digital channels, questions of intellectual property and the visual arts become important once more.

Industrial and intellectual property --- Art --- art [fine art] --- property rights --- France --- Intellectual property --- Copyright --- Law and art --- Propriété intellectuelle --- Droit d'auteur --- Droit et art --- Propriété intellectuelle --- History. --- Histoire. --- art [discipline]

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This fascinating volume takes as its starting point the recurrent motif of the figure of Venus and the associated figure of Cupid in Western art from the Renaissance to the present day, and uses it to raise issues of art, gender and sexuality. Each essay brings a particular moment into vivid focus, looking at specific works of painting, sculpture, design or photography. Approached as a manifestly historical problem, the theme of art and sexuality is also addressed in ways informed by certain theoretical discussions in feminism.

Art --- Sexology --- sexuality --- Venus --- Venus [Mythological character] --- Gender --- History --- Love --- Sexuality --- Visual arts --- Book

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"This innovative book looks at objects that once belonged to artists, revealing not only the fabric of the eighteenth-century art world in France but also unfamiliar-and sometimes unexpected-insights into the individuals who populated it, including Jean-Antoine Watteau, François Boucher, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, and Elisabeth Vigée-LeBrun"--

Artists --- Personal belongings --- Material culture --- Art, French --- History

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