The Mobile Image from Watteau to Boucher - Softcover

Pullins, David

 
9781606068885: The Mobile Image from Watteau to Boucher
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1606068881 ISBN 13: 9781606068885
Publisher: Getty Research Institute, 2024

Synopsis

Reframing long-held assumptions about what distinguishes fine from decorative art, this innovative study explores a mode of making, seeing, and thinking that slices across eighteenth-century visual culture.

This book provides a new way of thinking about eighteenth-century French art and visual culture by prioritizing production over reception. Abandoning the ideologically driven discourse that distinguished fine from decorative art between the 1690s and 1770s, The Mobile Image reveals how the two have been inextricably bound from the earliest stages of artistic instruction through the daily life of painters’ workshops. In this study, author David Pullins defines artisanal and artistic means of learning, seeing, and making through a system of “mobile images”: motifs that were effectively engineered for mobility and designed never to be definitive, always awaiting replication and circulation. He examines the careers of Antoine Watteau, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, and François Boucher, situating them against a much broader cast of actors—such as printmakers, publishers, anonymous studio assistants, and architects, among others—to place eighteenth-century painting within a wider context of media and making.

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About the Author

David Pullins is Jayne Wrightsman Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he is responsible for seventeenth-and eighteenth-century French, Italian, and Spanish painting.

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Publisher
Getty Research Institute
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1606068881
ISBN 13 
9781606068885
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
208