East Asian Aesthetics and the Space of Painting in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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18th century
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Antoine Watteau
arabesque
art
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Bernard Van Rysamburgh
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Chinoiserie
colonialism
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cross-cultural
culture
decorative
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Eastern
Edward Said
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European
exotic
export
Francois Boucher
French
Homi Bhabha
horizon
import
influence
Jacques de Lajoue
jade
Jean Francois de Troy
Jean Pillement
Katie Scott
landscape
Language_English
Marianne Roland Michel
Mimi Hellman
Nicolas Lancret
Orientalism
ornamentation
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porcelain
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representation
rocaille
Rococo
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space
textiles
Thomas Crow
Western
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- ISBN 9781606067970
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jan 2024
- Publisher: Getty Trust Publications
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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This volume offers the first critical account of how European imports of East Asian textiles, porcelain, and lacquers, along with newly published descriptions of the Chinese garden, inspired a revolution in the role of painting in early modern Europe. With particular focus on French interiors, Isabelle Tillerot reveals how a European enthusiasm for East Asian culture and a demand for novelty transformed the dynamic between painting and decor. Models of space, landscape, and horizon, as shown in Chinese and Japanese objects and their ornamentation, disrupted prevailing design concepts in Europe. With paintings no longer functioning as pictorial windows, they began to be viewed as discrete images displayed on a wall—and with that, their status changed from decorative device to autonomous work of art.
This study presents a detailed history of this transformation, revealing how an aesthetic free from the constraints of symmetry and geometrized order upended paradigms of display, enabling European painting to come into its own.
Isabelle Tillerot is an independent scholar of eighteenth-century French art. She is the author of Jean de Jullienne et les collectionneurs de son temps: Un regard singulier sur le tableau (2010) and Beautés arbitraires: Essai sur l'imagination à
l'epoque moderne (2021).
