{"product_id":"fancy-in-eighteenth-century-european-visual-culture-9781789620030","title":"Fancy in Eighteenth-Century European Visual","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFancy in the eighteenth century was part of a rich semantic network, connecting wit, whimsicality, erotic desire, spontaneity, deviation from norms and triviality. It was also a contentious term, signifying excess, oddness and irrationality, liable to offend taste, reason and morals. This collection of essays foregrounds fancy – and its close synonym, caprice – as a distinct strand of the imagination in the period. As a prevalent, coherent and enduring concept in aesthetics and visual culture, it deserves a more prominent place in scholarly understanding than it has hitherto occupied. Fancy is here understood as a type of creative output that deviated from rules and relished artistic freedom. It was also a mode of audience response, entailing a high degree of imaginative engagement with playful, quirky artworks, generating pleasure, desire or anxiety. Emphasizing commonalities between visual productions in different media from diverse locations, the authors interrogate and celebrate the expressive freedom of fancy in European visual culture. Topics include: the seductive fictions of the fancy picture, Fragonard and \u003ci\u003egalanterie\u003c\/i\u003e, fancy in drawing manuals, pattern books and popular prints, fans and fancy goods, \u003ci\u003echinoiserie\u003c\/i\u003e, excess and virtuality in garden design, Canaletto's British 'capricci', urban design in Madrid, and Goya's 'Caprichos'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘The fifteen essays published here are focused more specifically on the eighteenth century, ad consider a broad range of potential gateways to \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003efantasie\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\/fancy offered by artists, artisans, writers and tradesmen. The result is a refreshingly expansive overview of a concept that hitherto was largely confined to discussions of painting and to the exclusive consideration of such artists as Joshua Reynolds or Fragonard.’ \u003cbr\u003e Yuriko Jackall, \u003ci\u003eThe Burlington Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A valuable addition to European cultural  studies, this well-documented collection provides a fascinating  perspective on an important theme that pervades eighteenth-century  creative expression.'Felicia B. Sturzer, \u003ci\u003eNew Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of figures\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMelissa Percival - Introduction\u003cbr\u003eEmmanuel Faure-Carricaburu - The fantasy figures of Jean-Baptiste Santerre and the limits of generic frameworks of interpretation\u003cbr\u003eChristophe Guillouet - The Parisian world of printmaking at the heart of the invention of a genre? Poilly, Courtin and Bonnart's \u003ci\u003efantaisies \u003c\/i\u003e(1713-1728)\u003cbr\u003eJohn Chu - Windows of opportunity: the French fantasy figure and the spirit of enterprise in early-eighteenth-century Europe\u003cbr\u003eMartin Postle - Modelling for the fancy picture in eighteenth-century England\u003cbr\u003eBénédicte Miyamoto - The influence of drawing manuals on the British practice and reception of fancy pictures\u003cbr\u003eGuillaume Faroult - A \u003ci\u003egalant \u003c\/i\u003efantasy: Fragonard's fantasy figures and \u003ci\u003eThe Music lesson \u003c\/i\u003ein relation to Van Dyck, Watteau and Carle Vanloo\u003cbr\u003ePierre-Henri Biger - Fans, fantasy and fancy\u003cbr\u003eMelissa Percival - Fancy as a mode of consumption\u003cbr\u003eVanessa Alayrac-Fielding - 'A butterfly supporting an elephant': \u003ci\u003echinoiserie, fantaisie \u003c\/i\u003eand 'the luxuriance of fancy'\u003cbr\u003eLaurent Châtel - The garden as \u003ci\u003ecapriccio\u003c\/i\u003e: the hortulan pleasures of imagination and virtuality\u003cbr\u003eBéatrice Laurent - Grand Tour \u003ci\u003ecapricci\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eXavier Cervantes - Venetian reminiscences and cultural hybridity in Canaletto's English-period \u003ci\u003ecapricci \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003evedute\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eAdrián Fernández Almoguera - From the private cabinet to the suburban villa: caprices and fantasies in eighteenth-century Madrid\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Schulz - Satire and fantasy in Goya's \u003ci\u003eCaprichos\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eAlice Labourg - 'Fancy paints with hues unreal': pictorial fantasy and literary creation in Ann Radcliffe's Gothic novels\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSummaries\u003cbr\u003eList of contributors\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50470044467543,"sku":"9781789620030","price":98.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789620030.jpg?v=1744897226","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fancy-in-eighteenth-century-european-visual-culture-9781789620030","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}