Editorial: Pennsylvania State University Press
Número de páginas: 192 págs.
Fecha de edición: 31-01-2024
EAN: 9780271095288
ISBN: 978-0-271-09528-8
Precio (sin IVA): 109,58 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 113,96 €
Eighteenth-century France witnessed an unprecedented proliferation of materially unstable art, from oil paintings that cracked within years of their creation to enormous pastel portraits vulnerable to the slightest touch or vibration. In this book, Oliver Wunsch traces these artistic practices to the economic and social conditions that enabled them: an ascendant class of art collectors who embraced fragile objects as a means of showcasing their disposable wealth.