TY  - GEN
T1  - Taste and power : furnishing Modern France
T2  - Studies on the history of society and culture ;
A1  - Auslander, Leora
LA  - English
PP  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 1996
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm42855005
AB  - Enlivened and enriched by Auslander's experiences as a cabinetmaker, this pathbreaking work demonstrates that in post-Revolutionary France, furniture and consumer goods became newly important means of constituting selves, social class, and, perhaps most significantly, the economy and society of the nation itself. The very style of the goods reflected these preoccupations: nineteenth-century bourgeois style was dominated by gendered versions of Old Regime-style furniture, while the working class was offered new furniture designed specifically for its needs. Tastemaking took on a sudden urgency, reflected in the creation of new schools, museums, expositions, libraries, magazines, and books designed to "improve" the taste of producers and consumers alike. As these institutions competed with furniture sellers, a fierce competition sprang up among government bureaucrats, private philanthropists, and distributors to control workers' and consumers' taste. Auslander melds the history of high politics - the formation of the state - with the history of the mundane - furniture - in order to examine how power was consolidated, reproduced, and even resisted in the small objects and gestures of everyday life in France
OP  - 495
CN  - DC33 .A87 1996eb
SN  - 9780520920941
SN  - 0520920945
SN  - 0585047871
SN  - 9780585047874
SN  - 0520088948
KW  - France : Civilization.
KW  - Furniture : Styles : Social aspects : France.
KW  - Social change : France.
KW  - Politics and culture : France.
KW  - France : Politics and government : 1789-
KW  - Meubles : Styles : Aspect social : France.
KW  - Changement social : France.
KW  - Politique et culture : France.
KW  - France : Civilisation.
KW  - France : Politique et gouvernement : 1789-
KW  - HISTORY.
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / General
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Furniture : Styles : Social aspects
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Politics and culture
KW  - Social change
KW  - France
KW  - Since 1789
KW  - Furniture : Design : History
ER  -