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Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France Volume 24

Taste and Power: Furnishing Modern France Volume 24

Paperback

Series: Studies on the History of Society and Culture, Book 24

French HistoryFurniture

ISBN10: 0520213653
ISBN13: 9780520213654
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Apr 24 1998
Pages: 526
Weight: 1.83
Height: 1.36 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.05
Language: English
Louis XIV, regency, rococo, neoclassical, empire, art nouveau, and historicist pastiche: furniture styles march across French history as regimes rise and fall. In this extraordinary social history, Leora Auslander explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century, revealing how the aesthetics of everyday life were as integral to political events as to economic and social transformations. Enriched by Auslander's experience as a cabinetmaker, this work demonstrates how furniture served to represent and even generate its makers' and consumers' identities.

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