[PDF.20wg] Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France (Studies on the History of Society and Culture)

Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France (Studies on the History of Society and Culture)

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 | #4300433 in Books |  1996-06-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.50 x6.50 x1.50l, | File type: PDF | 526 pages

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||5 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent and deep|By Robert Atchison|Collectors of European furniture are advised to read this book to understand how French styles were produced over a long period of time and how to tell real 18th century Louis XVI from 19th century reproductions. The French social history of furniture manufacture and consumerism in this book is quite amazing and readable. I strongly advis| |"A fascinating study of the relationship among furniture, taste, and power structures in France . . . particularly Auslander's analysis of the evolution of a feminine public sphere oriented around the politics of domestic space and social power." --

Louis XIV, regency, rococo, neoclassical, empire, art nouveau, and historicist pastiche: furniture styles march across French history as regimes rise and fall. In this extraordinary social history, Leora Auslander explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century, revealing how the aesthetics of everyday life were as integral to political events as to economic and social transformations. Enriched by Auslander's experi...

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