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Francois boucher and his Chinoiserie.
Title:
Francois boucher and his Chinoiserie.
Author:
Chang, An-Ni.
ISBN:
9781124388380
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Publication Information:
Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2010
Physical Description:
1 online resource (66 p.)
General Note:
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 72-07.
Publisher info.: Dissertation/Thesis.
Advisor: Ziskin, Rochelle.
Abstract:
In this master's thesis, I reexamine the Chinoiserie of the French Rococo artist Francois Boucher (1703-1770). First, I discuss the French concept of China during the first half of the eighteenth century. Second, I analyze how Boucher's Chinese collection and interests in the Far East informed his art and his Chinoiserie. Finally, I scrutinize Boucher's Chinoiserie designs, focusing on his tapestry sketches. My argument is that Boucher's Chinoiserie has been characterized by contemporary art historians as a masquerade of a fete galante, strewn with miscellaneous Chinese pieces. However, through my investigation, I find Boucher's Chinoiserie laden with many authentic details, rendering a relatively convincing effect, especially in comparison with contemporaneous Chinoiserie works, illustrations in travelogues on China, and imported Chinese porcelain pieces, which made his work distinctive in the period.
Local Note:
School code: 0134.
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Thesis Note:
Thesis (A.M.)--University of Missouri - Kansas City, 2010.
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