Marie-Antoinette's Legacy - The Politics of French Garden Patronage and Picturesque Design, 1775-1867 (Hardcover)

Challenging the established historiography that frames the French picturesque garden movement as an international style, this book contends that the French picturesque gardens from 1775 until 1867 functioned as liminal zones at the epicenter of court patronage systems. Four French consorts-queen Marie-Antoinette and empresses Josephine Bonaparte, Marie-Louise and Eugenie-constructed their gardens betwixt and between court ritual and personal agency, where they transgressed sociopolitical boundaries in order to perform gender and identity politics. Each patron endorsed embodied strolling, promoting an awareness of the sentient body in artfully contrived sensoria at the Petit Trianon and Malmaison, transforming these places into spaces of shared affectivity. The gardens became living legacies, where female agency, excluded from the garden history canon, created a forum for spatial politics. Beyond the garden gates, the spatial experience of the picturesque influenced the development of cultural fields dedicated to performances of subjectivity, including landscape design, cultural geography and the origination of landscape aesthetics in France.

General

Imprint:	Amsterdam University Press
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Spatial Imageries in Historical Perspective
Release date:	November 2022
Authors:	Susan Taylor-Leduc
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	316
ISBN-13:	978-9463724241
Categories:	Books > Health, Home & Family > Gardening > Gardens (descriptions, history etc) Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Horticulture > General Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Gardening > Gardens (descriptions, history etc)
LSN:	9463724249
Barcode:	9789463724241

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