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Luxury After the Terror (Hardcover)
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Luxury After the Terror (Hardcover)
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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 survival of French luxury after the death of the
king. Spanning the final years of the ancien régime from the 1790s
to the first two decades of the nineteenth century, this richly
illustrated book positions luxury within the turbulent politics of
dispersal, disinheritance, and dispossession. Exploring exceptional
works created from silver, silk, wood, and porcelain as well as
unrealized architectural projects, Iris Moon presents new
perspectives on the changing meanings of luxury in the
revolutionary and Napoleonic periods, a time when artists were
forced into hiding, exile, or emigration. Moon draws on her
expertise as a curator to revise conventional accounts of the
so-called Louis XVI style, arguing that it was only after the
revolutionary auctions liquidated the king’s collections that
their provenance accrued deeper cultural meanings as objects with
both a royal imprimatur and a threatening reactionary potential.
Lively and accessible, this thought-provoking study will be of
interest to curators, art historians, scholars, and students of the
decorative arts as well as specialists in the French Revolution.
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