Pastiche Fashion And Galanterie In Chardins Genre Subjects

Download or read book Pastiche, Fashion, and Galanterie in Chardin's Genre Subjects written by Paula Radisich and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the genre subjects created by Jean Siméon Chardin in the 1730s and 1740s as exemplars of a period-specific aesthetic known as the goût moderne or Modern taste, a category shaped by the literary Quarrel of the Ancients versus the Moderns.