Format:
xviii, 243 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln
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Illustrationen
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24 cm
Edition:
This paperback edition published 2023
ISBN:
9781350203624
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9781350203587
Series Statement:
Material culture of art and design
Content:
"How do our senses help us to understand the world? This question, which preoccupied Enlightenment thinkers, also emerged as a key theme in depictions of animals in eighteenth-century art. This book examines the ways in which painters such as Chardin, as well as sculptors, porcelain modelers, and other decorative designers portrayed animals as sensing subjects who physically confirmed the value of material experience. The sensual style known today as the Rococo encouraged the proliferation of animals as exemplars of empirical inquiry, ranging from the popular subject of the monkey artist to the alchemical wonders of the life-sized porcelain animals created for the Saxon court. Examining writings on sensory knowledge by La Mettre, Condillac, Diderot and other philosophers side by side with depictions of the animal in art, Cohen argues that artists promoted the animal as a sensory subject while also validating the material basis of their own professional practice"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350203594
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350203600
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Cohen, Sarah R., 1957- Enlightened animal in eighteenth-century art New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Cohen, Sarah Enlightened Animals in Eighteenth-Century Art London : Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2021 ISBN 9781350203600
Language:
English
Keywords:
Tierdarstellung
;
Kunst
;
Geschichte 1700-1800
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