Rococo echo
Subtitle: art, history and historiography from Cochin to Coppola
By: edited by Melissa Lee Hyde and Katie Scott
Series: Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment -- 2014:12; Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment -- 2014:12.
Publisher: Voltaire Foundation; Voltaire Foundation in association with Liverpool University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9780729411585
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Rococo Art
Other titles: Art, history and historiography from Cochin to Coppola; Rococo echo :
Description: "In Rococo echo, a team of international contributors adopts a wide lens to explore the relationship of the Rococo with time. Through chapters organised around broad temporal moments--the French Revolution, the First World War and the turn of the twenty-first century--contributors show that the Rococo has been viewed variously as modern, late, ruined, revived, preserved and anticipated. Taking into account the temporality of the Rococo as form, some contributors consider its function as both a visual language and a cultural marker engaged in different ways with the politics of nationalism, gender and race. The Rococo is examined, too, as a mode of expression that encompassed and assimilated styles, and which functioned as a surprisingly effective means of resisting both authority--whether political, religious or artistic--and cultural norms of gender and class. Contributors also show how the Rococo, from its birth in France, reverberated through England, Germany, Italy, Portugal and the South American colonies to become a pan-European, even global movement."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-388) and index.

Text in English.
Table of contents: title: Foreword. Rococo echo : style and temporality / Katie Scott; title: [Part] 1. Rococo revivals : the nineteenth century. The uncomfortable Frenchness of the German Rococo / Michael Yonan; title: Rococo republicanism / Elizabeth Mansfield; title: Scavenging Rococo : trouvailles, bibelots and counter-revolution / Tom Stammers; title: Vive l'amateur! The Goncourt house revisited / Andrew McClellan; title: Pierrot's periodicity : Watteau, Nadar and the circulation of the Rococo / Marika T. Knowles; title: Remembrance of things past : Robert de Montesquiou, Emile Gallé and Rococo revival during the fin de siècle / Meredith Martin; title: Irregular rococo Impressionism / Anne Higonnet; title: [Part] 2. Rococo : the eighteenth century. Was there such a thing as rococo painting in eighteenth-century France? / Colin B. Bailey; title: 'A wild kind of imagination' : eclecticism and excess in the English rococo designs of Thomas Johnson / Brigid von Preussen; title: Out of time : Fragonard, with David / Satish Padiyar; title: Rococo and spirituality from Paris to Rio de Janeiro / Gauvin Alexander Bailey; title: [Part] 3. New Rococo : the twentieth century and beyond. Sedlmayr's Rococo / Kevin Chua; title: Warhol's Rococo : style and subversion in the 1950s / Allison Unruh; title: The new Rococo : Sofia Coppola and fashions in contemporary femininity / Rebecca Arnold; title: Post-colonial Rococo : Yinka Shonibare MBE plays Fragonard / Sarah Wilson; title: The Rococo revival and the old art history / Carol Duncan; title: Afterword. The Rococo dream of happiness as 'a delicate kind of revolt' / Melissa Lee Hyde.