Chinoiserie
Commerce and critical ornament in eighteenth-century Britain
By Stacey Sloboda
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Book Information
- Format: Hardcover
- ISBN: 978-0-7190-8945-9
- Pages: 256
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Price: £100.00
- Published Date: July 2014
- BIC Category: History of art, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, ARCHITECTURE / Interior Design / General, ART / History / General, Professional Interior Design, The arts / History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, Art History
- Series: Studies in Design and Material Culture
Description
In a critical reassessment of chinoiserie, a style both praised and derided for its triviality, prettiness and ornamental excesses, Stacey Sloboda argues that chinoiserie was no mute participant in eighteenth-century global consumer culture, but was instead a critical commentator on that culture. Analysing ceramics, wallpaper, furniture, garden architecture and other significant examples of British and Chinese design, this book takes an object-focused approach to studying the cultural phenomenon of the 'Chinese taste' in eighteenth-century Britain. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the critical history of design and the decorative arts in the period, and students and scholars of art history, material culture, eighteenth-century studies and British history will find a novel approach to studying the decorative arts and a forceful argument for their critical capacities.
Reviews
'Sloboda's articulation of chinoiserie as "critical ornament," a versatile visual and material language used to express and reveal various commercial attitudes in Britain, from trading to manufacturing to buying and consuming, needs to be commended. It is an important contribution to a wider understanding of the complex nature and multi-layered meaning of chinoiserie.'
Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding, Senior lecturer in British history, Université Lille 3, The Art bulletin, CAA March 2016
Contents
Introduction: Reassessing chinoiserie
1. Making china: circulation, imitation and innovation
2. Buying china: commerce, taste and materialism
3. Commerce in the bedroom: sex, gender and social status
4. Commerce in the garden: nature, art and authority
Conclusion: Style and the global marketplace
Bibliography
Index
Author
Stacey Sloboda is Associate Professor of Art History at Southern Illinois University
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