Author: Paula Radisich
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611494257
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
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.