
Taste and Power
Furnishing Modern France
Leora Auslander(Author)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Published on 4. June 1996
Book
Hardback
526 pages
978-0-520-08894-8 (ISBN)
Description
Louis XIV, regency, rococo, neoclassical, empire, art nouveau and historicist pastiche; furniture styles march across French history as regimes rise and fall. In this extra-ordinary social history, Leora Auslander explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Analysing furniture makers, sellers, buyers, and arbiters, Auslander reveals how the aesthetics of everyday life were as integral to political events as to economic and social transformations. She traces changes in furniture's place in the making of social and political life from Absolutism to Republicanism, from courtly consumption and artisanal production to bourgeois tastemakers who denigrated artisanal aesthetics and subtly realigned gender dynamics. Enlivened and enriched by Auslander's experience as a cabinetmaker, this work demonstrates how furniture served to represent and even generate its makers' and consumers' identities.
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Series
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
68 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 44 mm
Weight
1043 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-08894-8 (9780520088948)
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04/2023
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Naval Institute Press
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Person
Leora Auslander is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Gender Studies at the University of Chicago.