Taste and Power
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Taste and Power

Furnishing Modern France

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  2. English
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Taste and Power

Furnishing Modern France

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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.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9780520920941
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
European History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Illustrations
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. INTRODUCTION. Representation, Style, and Taste: The Politics of Everyday Life
  5. PART ONE. The Paradox of Absolutism: The Power of the Monarch's Limits
  6. 1. The Courtly Stylistic Regime: Representation and Power under Absolutism
  7. 2. Negotiating Absolute Power: City, Crown, and Church
  8. 3. Fathers, Masters, and Kings: Mirroring Monarchical Power
  9. PART TWO. From Style to Taste: Transitions to the Bourgeois Stylistic Regime
  10. 4. Revolutionary Transformation: The Demise of the Culture of Production and of the Courtly Stylistic Regime
  11. 5. The New Politics of the Everyday: Making Class through Taste and Knowledge
  12. 6. The Separation of Aesthetics and Productive Labor
  13. PART THREE. The Bourgeois Stylistic Regime: Representation, Nation, State, and the Everyday
  14. 7. The Bourgeoisie as Consumers: Social Representation and Power in the Third Republic
  15. 8. Style in the New Commercial World
  16. 9. After the Culture of Production: The Paradox of Labor and Citizenship
  17. 10. Style, the Nation, and the Market: The Paradoxes of Representation in a Capitalist Republic
  18. EPILOGUE. Toward a Mass Stylistic Regime: The Citizen-Consumer
  19. Bibliography
  20. General Index
  21. Index of Names