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The Painter's Touch - Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard (Paperback)
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The Painter's Touch - Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard (Paperback)
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A new interpretation of the development of artistic modernity in
eighteenth-century France What can be gained from considering a
painting not only as an image but also a material object? How does
the painter's own experience of the process of making matter for
our understanding of both the painting and its maker? The Painter's
Touch addresses these questions to offer a radical reinterpretation
of three paradigmatic French painters of the eighteenth century. In
this beautifully illustrated book, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth provides
close readings of the works of Francois Boucher, Jean-Simeon
Chardin, and Jean-Honore Fragonard, entirely recasting our
understanding of these painters' practice. Using the notion of
touch, she examines the implications of their strategic investment
in materiality and sheds light on the distinct contribution of
painting to the culture of the Enlightenment. Lajer-Burcharth
traces how the distinct logic of these painters' work-the operation
of surface in Boucher, the deep materiality of Chardin, and the
dynamic morphological structure in Fragonard-contributed to the
formation of artistic identity. Through the notion of touch, she
repositions these painters in the artistic culture of their time,
shifting attention from institutions such as the academy and the
Salon to the realms of the market, the medium, and the body.
Lajer-Burcharth analyzes Boucher's commercial tact, Chardin's
interiorized craft, and Fragonard's materialization of eros.
Foregrounding the question of experience-that of the painters and
of the people they represent-she shows how painting as a medium
contributed to the Enlightenment's discourse on the self in both
its individual and social functions. By examining what paintings
actually "say" in brushstrokes, texture, and paint, The Painter's
Touch transforms our understanding of the role of painting in the
emergence of modernity and provides new readings of some of the
most important and beloved works of art of the era.
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