'Fancy' in eighteenth-century European visual culture. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Melissa Percival and Muriel Adrien.
• Editors: Percival, Melissa; Adrien, Muriel
• Other Names: Voltaire Foundation.
• Contents: List of figures Acknowledgements Melissa Percival - Introduction Emmanuel Faure-Carricaburu - The fantasy figures of Jean-Baptiste Santerre and the limits of generic frameworks of interpretation Christophe Guillouet - The Parisian world of printmaking at the heart of the invention of a genre? Poilly, Courtin and Bonnart's fantaisies (1713-1728) John Chu - Windows of opportunity: the French fantasy figure and the spirit of enterprise in early-eighteenth-century Europe Martin Postle - Modelling for the fancy picture in eighteenth-century England Bénédicte Miyamoto - The influence of drawing manuals on the British practice and reception of fancy pictures Guillaume Faroult - A galant fantasy: Fragonard's fantasy figures and The Music lesson in relation to Van Dyck, Watteau and Carle Vanloo Pierre-Henri Biger - Fans, fantasy and fancy Melissa Percival - Fancy as a mode of consumption Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding - 'A butterfly supporting an elephant': chinoiseries, fantaisie and 'the luxuriance of fancy' Laurent Châtel - The garden as capriccio: the hortulan pleasures of imagination and virtuality Béatrice Laurent - Grand Tour capricci Xavier Cervantes - Venetian reminiscences and cultural hybridity in Canaletto's English-period capricci and vedute Adrián Fernández Almoguera - From the private cabinet to the suburban villa: caprices and fantasies in eighteenth-century Madrid Andrew Schulz - Satire and fantasy in Goya's Caprichos Alice Labourg - 'Fancy paints with hues unreal': pictorial fantasy and literary creation in Ann Radcliffe's Gothic novels Summaries List of contributors Bibliography Index.
• Publisher Details: Liverpool : Voltaire Foundation
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 700.9409; Fantasy in art; Fancy pictures -- Europe; Fancy work -- Europe; Figure painting -- Europe; Portrait painting, European -- 18th century; Face in art; Human figure in art; Europe -- Social life and customs -- 18th century
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800346703
• Related ISBNs: 9781789620030
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