Pastiche, Fashion, and Galanterie in Chardin's Genre Subjects
Pastiche, Fashion, and Galanterie in Chardin's Genre Subjects
Autor
Paula Rea Radisich
This book analyzes the genre subjects created by Jean Simeon Chardin in the 1730s and 1740s as exemplars of a period-specific aesthetic known as the gout moderne or Modern taste, a category shaped by the literary Quarrel of the Ancients versus the Moderns.