The Enlightenment against the Baroque (eBook)

Economics and Aesthetics in the Eighteenth Century

Rémy G. Saisselin (Autor)

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2024
166 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520377585 (ISBN)

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How do seemingly disparate arenas of Enlightenment philosophy, economic theories, boudoir etiquette, literary styles, and artistic modes coincide in the late eighteenth century? In this poetic essay on the evolution of the idea of luxury and art, Rémy G. Saisselin uses precise, witty examples to describe the development of our modern taste, the successor of the more spiritual and grand baroque goût. His analysis both illuminates and distinguishes between eighteenth-century and modern varieties of conspicuous consumption.
 
This persuasive discourse depicts the rise of luxe as an escape from ennui and shows how, for the first time in European history, a large class of wealthy, leisured people emerged to make art, luxury, and the avoidance of boredom its preoccupation. Saisselin provides an original and lucid picture of the first phases in the emergence of a specifically bourgeois taste.
 This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.6.2024
• Reihe/Serie: Quantum Books
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Schlagworte: 18th century aesthetics • 18th century art • 18th century economics • 18th century france • 18th century luxury • art and class • art and economics • Art History • artistic style • Artistic taste • baroque civilization • baroque history • boudoir etiquette • conspicuous consumption • Denis Diderot • Economic theories • Enlightenment • Enlightenment philosophy • late 18th century artistic modes • late 18th century literary styles • luxury and art
• ISBN-13: 9780520377585 / 9780520377585