Taste & Power - Furnishing Modern France (Paper)

1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-0-520-21365-4
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 24, 526 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 705 g

Reihe: Studies on the History of Society and Culture

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 experience as a cabinetmaker, this work demonstrates how furniture served to represent and even generate its makers' and consumers' identities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Auslander, Leora

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Design Architekturdesign
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Nicht-Graphische Kunstformen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Innenarchitektur, Architekturdesign

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
Representation, Style, and Taste: The Politics of Everyday Life
PART ONE The Paradox of Absolutism: The Power of the Monarch's Limits

1. The Courtly Stylistic Regime: Representation and Power under Absolutism

2. Negotiating Absolute Power: City, Crown, and Church

3· Fathers, Masters, and Kings: Mirroring Monarchical Power

PART TWO From Style to Taste:Transitions to the Bourgeois Stylistic Regime

4· Revolutionary Transformation:

The Demise of the Culture of Production and of the Courtly Stylistic Regime

5· The New Politics of the Everyday: Making Class through Taste and Knowledge

6. The Separation of Aesthetics and Productive Labor
PART THREE The Bourgeois Stylistic Regime: Representation, Nation, State, and the Everyday

7· The Bourgeoisie as Consumers: Social Representation and Power in the Third Republic
8. Style in the New Commercial World
9· After the Culture of Production:The Paradox of Labor and Citizenship
10. Style, the Nation, and the Market: EPILOGUE
The Paradoxes of Representation in a Capitalist Republic
Toward a Mass Stylistic Regime: The Citizen-Consumer
Bibliography
General Index
Index of Names

Über Autor(innen)

Leora Auslander is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Center for Gender Studies at the University of Chicago.