Taste and power : furnishing Modern France /
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...
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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©1996.
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| Colecção: | Studies on the history of society and culture ;
24. |
| Acesso em linha: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.2711609 |
Sumário:
- The courtly stylistic regime: representation and power under absolutism
- Negotiating absolute power: city, crown, and church
- Fathers, masters and kings: mirroring monarchical power
- Revolutionary transformation: the demise of the culture of production and the courtly stylistic regime
- The new politics of the everyday: making class through taste and knowledge
- The separation of aesthetics and productive labor
- The bourgeoisie as consumers: social representation and power in the third republic
- Style in the new commercial world
- After the culture of production: the paradox of labor and citizenship
- Style, the nation, and the market: the paradoxes of representation in a capitalist republic
- Epilogue: toward a mass stylistic regime: the citizen
- consumer.