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The Painter's Touch - Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard (Hardcover)
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The Painter's Touch - Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard (Hardcover)
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A new interpretation of the development of artistic modernity in
eighteenth-century France The Painter's Touch is 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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