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  • Luxury After the Terror

    par Iris Moon ...
    When Louis XVI was guillotined on January 21, 1793, vast networks of production that had provided splendor and sophistication to the royal court were severed. Although the king’s royal possessions—from drapery and tableware to clocks and furniture suites—were scattered and destroyed, many of the artists who made them found ways to survive. This book explores the fabrication, circulation, and ... En savoir plus

    $98.39 CAD

  • Time, Media, and Visuality in Post-Revolutionary France

    Modifié par Iris Moon, Richard Taws ...
    The radical break with the past heralded by the French Revolution in 1789 has become one of the mythic narratives of our time. Yet in the drawn-out afterlife of the Revolution, and through subsequent periods of Empire, Restoration, and Republic, the question of what such a temporal transformation might involve found complex, often unresolved expression in visual and material culture.This diverse ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Architecture of Percier and Fontaine and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Revolutionary France

    par Iris Moon ...
    As the official architects of Napoleon, Charles Percier (1764–1838) and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762–1853) designed interiors that responded to the radical ideologies and collective forms of destruction that took place during the French Revolution. The architects visualized new forms of imperial sovereignty by inverting the symbols of monarchy and revolution, constructing meeting rooms ... En savoir plus

    $89.99 CAD

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  • Architecture in Words

    Theatre, Language and the Sensuous Space of Architecture

    par Louise Pelletier ...
    What if the house you are about to enter was built with the confessed purpose of seducing you, of creating various sensations destined to touch your soul and make you reflect on who you are? Could architecture have such power? This was the assumption of generations of architects at the beginning of modernity.Exploring the role of theatre and fiction in defining character in architecture, Louise ... En savoir plus

    $159.39 CAD

  • The Smile Revolution

    In Eighteenth-Century Paris

    par Colin Jones CBE ...
    You could be forgiven for thinking that the smile has no history; it has always been the same. However, just as different cultures in our own day have different rules about smiling, so did different societies in the past. In fact, amazing as it might seem, it was only in late eighteenth century France that western civilization discovered the art of the smile. In the 'Old Regime of Teeth' which ... En savoir plus

    $11.59 CAD

  • Paris Fashion

    A Cultural History

    par Valerie Steele ...
    Paris has been the international capital of fashion for more than 300 years. Even before the rise of the haute couture, Parisians were notorious for their obsession with fashion, and foreigners eagerly followed their lead. From Charles Frederick Worth to Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, Christian Dior, and Yves Saint Laurent, fashion history is dominated by the names of Parisian couturiers. But Valerie ... En savoir plus

    $40.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Paris

    Modifié par Anna-Louise Milne ...
    Collections series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    No city more than Paris has had such a constant and deep association with the development of literary forms and cultural ideas. The idea of the city as a space of literary self-consciousness started to take hold in the sixteenth century. By 1620, where this volume begins, the first in a long line of extraordinary works of the human imagination, in which the city represented itself to itself, had ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Invention of Celebrity

    par Antoine Lilti ...
    Traduit par Lynn Jeffress ...
    Frequently perceived as a characteristic of modern culture, the phenomenon of celebrity has much older roots. In this book Antoine Lilti shows that the mechanisms of celebrity were developed in Europe during the Enlightenment, well before films, yellow journalism, and television, and then flourished during the Romantic period on both sides of the Atlantic. Figures from across the arts like ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • Flaubert in the Ruins of Paris

    The Story of a Friendship, a Novel, and a Terrible Year

    par Peter Brooks ...
    From a distinguished literary historian, a look at Gustave Flaubert and his correspondence with George Sand during France's "terrible year" -- summer 1870 through spring 1871From the summer of 1870 through the spring of 1871, France suffered a humiliating defeat in its war against Prussia and witnessed bloody class warfare that culminated in the crushing of the Paris Commune. In Flaubert in the ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD

  • Enlightened Animals in Eighteenth-Century Art

    Sensation, Matter, and Knowledge

    par Sarah Cohen ...
    Collections series Material Culture of Art and Design
    How do our senses help us to understand the world? This question, which preoccupied Enlightenment thinkers, also emerged as a key theme in depictions of animals in eighteenth-century art. This book examines the ways in which painters such as Chardin, as well as sculptors, porcelain modelers, and other decorative designers portrayed animals as sensing subjects who physically confirmed the value of ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Lure of Perfection

    Fashion and Ballet, 1780-1830

    par Judith Bennahum ...
    THE LURE OF PERFECTION: FASHION AND BALLET, 1780-1830 offers a unique look at how ballet influenced contemporary fashion and women's body image, and how street fashions in turn were reflected by the costumes worn by ballet dancers. Through years of research, the author has traced the interplay between fashion, social trends, and the development of dance. During the 18th century, women literally ... En savoir plus

    $81.99 CAD

  • Historical Dictionary of French Theater

    par Edward Forman ...
    Collections series Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
    The term "French theater" evokes most immediately the glories of the classical period and the peculiarities of the Theater of the Absurd. It has given us the works of Corneille, Racine, and Moliere. In the Romantic era there was Alexander Dumas and surrealist works of Alfred Jarry, and then the Theater of the Absurd erupted in rationalistic France with Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, and Jean-Paul ... En savoir plus

    $158.99 CAD