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The Versailles Effect: Objects, Lives, and Afterlives of the Domaine: Material Culture of Art and Design

Editat de Mark Ledbury, Robert Wellington
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 apr 2024
The essays in this volume show that Versailles was not the static creation of one man, but a hugely complex cultural space; a centre of power, but also of life, love, anxiety, creation, and an enduring palimpsest of aspirations, desires, and ruptures. The splendour of the Château and the masterpieces of art and design that it contains mask a more complex and sometimes more sordid history of human struggle and achievement. The case studies presented by the contributors to this book cannot provide a comprehensive account of the Palace of Versailles and its domains, the life within its walls, its visitors, and the art and architecture that it has inspired from the seventeenth century to the present day: from the palace of the Sun King to the Penthouse of Donald Trump. However, this innovative collection will reshape-or even radically redefine-our understanding of the palace of Versailles and its posterity.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350437593
ISBN-10: 135043759X
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 71 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 150 x 228 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.46 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Seria Material Culture of Art and Design

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Enduring Versailles
Robert Wellington, Australian National University, Australia and Mark Ledbury, University of Sydney, Australia

PART ONE: MAKING THE PALACE
1. The Other Palace: Versailles & the Louvre, Hannah Williams (Queen Mary University, UK)
2. The grands décors of Charles Le Brun: between plan and serendipity, Bénédicte Gady (Musée des Arts Décoratifs, France)
3. Artisans du roi: Collaboration at the Gobelins, Louvre and the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture under the Influence of the Petite Académie, Florian Knothe (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
4. Rough Surfaces: Etching Louis XIV's Grotto at Versailles, Louis Marchesano (Philadelphia Museum of Art, USA)

PART TWO: VERSAILLES LIFE
5. Porcelain and Power: The Meaning of Sèvres Porcelain in ancien regime France, Matthew Martin (National Gallery of Victoria, Australia)
6. Hair, Politics, and Power at the Court of Versailles, Kimberly Chrisman Campbell (Independent scholar, USA)
7. The Politics of Attachment: Visualizing Young Louis XV and his Governess, Mimi Hellman (Skidmore College, USA)
8. Courting favour: the apartments of the princesse de Lamballe at Versailles, 1767-1789, Sarah Grant (Victoria and Albert Museum, UK)

PART THREE: OUTSIDERS
9. Enslaved Muslims at the Sun King's Court, Meredith Martin (New York University, USA) and Gillian Weiss (Case Western Reserve University, USA)
10. A Turk in the Hall of Mirrors, David Maskill (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
11. Cornelis Hop (1685-1762), Dutch Ambassador to the Court of Louis XV, Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA)

VERSAILLES NOW
12. Melancholy, Nostalgia, Dreams: Adventures in the Grand Cimetière Magique, Mark Ledbury (University of Sydney, Australia)
13. American Versailles: from the Gilded Age to Generation Wealth, Robert Wellington (Australian National University, Australia)

Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

Recenzii

Versailles has come to connote not just a physical space but also the model of court society and an enduring cultural myth. This flexibility of associations is captured in the subtitle to this imaginative edited volume: 'objects, lives, and afterlives'.
With its emphasis on artistic process and collaboration, as well as on questions of race and gender, The Versailles Effect rewrites our understanding of Versailles as both a real and imagined place, from its construction in the seventeenth century to its reverberations in contemporary culture. Its lucidly written essays by leading scholars in the field are an indispensable resource for understanding the Château and its global artistic and political networks.
This splendid anthology will fascinate all students of Versailles and Court culture more generally. By revealing new facets (and inhabitants) of an ostensibly familiar site, it opens fresh vistas on the role of visual and material culture in the palace's enduring life.
The refreshingly original and broad-ranging essays assembled in this volume eloquently demonstrate that Versailles was so much more than the magnificent palace of the Sun King. It was a domain, physical, cultural, artistic, political; an experience, and an idea, whose power, meanings, and effects still resonate today.