Noble Beasts: Hunters and Hunted in Eighteenth-century French Art - Couverture rigide

Freund, Amy

 
9780300282702: Noble Beasts: Hunters and Hunted in Eighteenth-century French Art
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0300282702 ISBN 13 : 9780300282702
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2026

Synopsis

How visual fantasies of violence, animality, and political agency offered an alternative image of masculinity during the Enlightenment   Centering on animal bodies and assertive masculinity, the visual strategies of hunting art may appear incongruent with our understanding of Rococo aesthetics and the early Enlightenment. But these themes, embraced with enthusiasm by artists and patrons, inspired artworks in every genre and medium in eighteenth-century France. As the country expanded its colonial empire, the absolute monarchy existed in tension with ambitious elites, and the Enlightenment eroded old certainties about selfhood and society, hunting art provided a visual language of personal and national sovereignty written with bodies of men and animals. Amy Freund revises our received notions of eighteenth-century French art and culture, confronting us with a visual culture of animality, violence, and death: a Rococo of dogs and guns.   Noble Beasts highlights the work of François Desportes, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, and others who, operating from the heart of institutions such as the Royal Academy and the Gobelins manufactory, produced an astonishing volume of highly accomplished work. The book draws on the critical frameworks of human-animal studies and on Enlightenment philosophical debates to explore how and why hunting art's aesthetic and political claims blurred the lines between human and animal.

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À propos de l?auteur

Amy Freund is associate professor and Kleinheinz Family Endowment for the Arts and Education Endowed Chair in Art History at Southern Methodist University.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300282702
ISBN 13 
9780300282702
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
248
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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