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Fragonard and the Fantasy Figure - Painting the Imagination (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Fragonard and the Fantasy Figure - Painting the Imagination (Hardcover, New Ed)
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A fresh interpretation of the group of Fragonard's paintings known
as the 'figures de fantaisie', Fragonard and the Fantasy Figure:
Painting the Imagination reconnects the fantasy figures with
neglected visual traditions in European art and firmly situates
them within the cultural and aesthetic contexts of
eighteenth-century France. Prior scholarship has focused on the
paintings' connections with portraiture, whereas this study
relocates them within a tradition of fantasy figures, where
resemblance was ignored or downplayed. The book defines Fragonard
as a painter of the imagination and foregrounds the imaginary at a
time when Enlightenment rationalism and Classical aesthetics
contrived to delimit the imagination. The book unravels scholarly
writing on these Fragonard paintings and examines the history of
the fantasy figure from early modern Europe to eighteenth-century
France. Emerging from this background is a view of Fragonard
turning away from the academically sanctioned 'invention', towards
more playful variants of the imaginary: fantasy and caprice.
Melissa Percival demonstrates how fantasy figures engage both
artists and viewers, allowing artists to unleash their imagination
through displays of virtuosity and viewers to use their imagination
to explore the paintings' unusual juxtapositions and humour.
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