{"product_id":"taste-and-power-9780520213654","title":"Taste and Power","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis work explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid-17th to the early-20th century. Analyzing furniture makers, sellers, buyers and arbiters, the book reveals how the aesthetics of everyday life were as integral to political events as economic and social transformations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e INTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e Representation, Style, and Taste: The Politics of Everyday Life\u003cbr\u003e PART ONE The Paradox of Absolutism: The Power of the Monarch's Limits \u003cbr\u003e 1. The Courtly Stylistic Regime: Representation and Power under Absolutism \u003cbr\u003e 2. Negotiating Absolute Power: City, Crown, and Church \u003cbr\u003e 3· Fathers, Masters, and Kings: Mirroring Monarchical Power \u003cbr\u003e PART TWO From Style to Taste:Transitions to the Bourgeois Stylistic Regime \u003cbr\u003e 4· Revolutionary Transformation:\u003cbr\u003e The Demise of the Culture of Production and of the Courtly Stylistic Regime \u003cbr\u003e 5· The New Politics of the Everyday: Making Class through Taste and Knowledge \u003cbr\u003e 6. The Separation of Aesthetics and Productive Labor\u003cbr\u003e PART THREE The Bourgeois Stylistic Regime: Representation, Nation, State, and the Everyday \u003cbr\u003e 7· The Bourgeoisie as Consumers: Social Representation and Power in the Third Republic\u003cbr\u003e 8. Style in the New Commercial World\u003cbr\u003e 9· After the Culture of Production:The Paradox of Labor and Citizenship\u003cbr\u003e 10. Style, the Nation, and the Market: EPILOGUE\u003cbr\u003e The Paradoxes of Representation in a Capitalist Republic\u003cbr\u003e Toward a Mass Stylistic Regime: The Citizen-Consumer\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e General Index\u003cbr\u003e Index of Names","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402806731095,"sku":"9780520213654","price":28.05,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520213654.jpg?v=1730481564","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/taste-and-power-9780520213654","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}