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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewReviews ‘an impressive and authoritative volume addressing the complex and various ways in which the eighteenth-century style persists as an alluring echo long after it was deemed redundant.’
Ceræ: an Australian journal of medieval and early modern studies‘Uprootedness, global dislocations, and eccentric visions of time are at the centre of this edited collection, which seeks to reframe the rococo as a discursive style perennially reactivated and reformulated from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries […] Ranging in scope beyond painting and interior decoration, the subjects discussed are refreshingly diverse’.
French Studies‘Le lecteur est invité à s’interroger tout d’abord au niveau méthodologique, sur les limites et les potentialités propres à certaines catégories historiographiques, puis au niveau philosophique, à remettre en question la notion d’art elle même, notamment dans ses liens avec la politique et la société’.
Dix-huitième siècleTable of ContentsForeword. Rococo echo: style and temporality, Katie Scott
I. Rococo revivals: the nineteenth century1. The uncomfortable Frenchness of the German Rococo, Michael Yonan
2. Rococo republicanism, elizabeth mansfield
3. Scavenging Rococo:
trouvailles, bibelots and counter-revolution, Tom Stammers
4.
Vive l’amateur! The Goncourt house revisited, Andrew McClellan
5. Pierrot’s periodicity: Watteau, Nadar and the circulation of the Rococo, Marika T. Knowles
6. Remembrance of things past: Robert de Montesquiou, Emile Gallé and Rococo revival during the
fin de siècle, Meredith Martin
7. Irregular rococo Impressionism, Anne Higonnet
II. Rococo: the eighteenth century8. Was there such a thing as rococo painting in eighteenth-century France?, Colin B. Bailey
9. ‘A wild kind of imagination’: eclecticism and excess in the English rococo designs of Thomas Johnson, Brigid von Preussen
10. Out of time: Fragonard, with David, Satish Padiyar
11. Rococo and spirituality from Paris to Rio de Janeiro, Gauvin Alexander Bailey
III. New Rococo: the twentieth century and beyond12. Sedlmayr’s Rococo, Kevin Chua
13. Warhol’s Rococo: style and subversion in the 1950s, Allison Unruh
14. The new Rococo: Sofia Coppola and fashions in contemporary femininity, Rebecca Arnold
15. Post-colonial Rococo: Yinka Shonibare MBE plays Fragonard, Sarah Wilson
16. The Rococo revival and the old art history, Carol Duncan
Afterword. The Rococo dream of happiness as ‘a delicate kind of revolt’, Melissa Lee Hyde
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