TY - BOOK ID - 61175880 TI - History, painting, and the seriousness of pleasure in the age of Louis XV PY - 2020 SN - 9781789620399 1789620392 PB - Oxford : Published by Liverpool University Press : on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford, DB - UniCat KW - Drawing KW - Painting KW - History of civilization KW - painting [image-making] KW - joy KW - anno 1700-1799 KW - Pleasure in art. KW - Art KW - Art, Baroque. KW - Art, Rococo. KW - Western philosophy KW - Civilization, Western KW - History KW - History, Modern KW - Enlightenment. KW - Enlightenment KW - Baroque & Rococo. KW - Philosophy. KW - Europe KW - France. KW - Louis KW - France KW - History. KW - Painting, Rococo KW - Painting, French KW - Human figure in art. KW - Pleasure in art KW - Art, Baroque KW - Art, Rococo KW - Aufklärung KW - Eighteenth century KW - Philosophy, Modern KW - Rationalism KW - Rococo art KW - Art, Modern KW - Baroque art KW - World history KW - Philosophy KW - Lodewijk KW - History, Modern. KW - 1700-1799 KW - Europe. KW - figuurtekenen UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:61175880 AB - French painting of Louis XV's reign (1723-1774), generally categorized by the term rococo, has typically been understood as an artistic style aimed at furnishing courtly society with delightful images of its own frivolous pursuits. Instead, this book shows the significance and seriousness underpinning the notion of pleasure embedded in eighteenth-century history painting. During this time, pleasure became a moral ideal grounded not only in domestic life but also defining a range of social, political, and cultural transactions oriented toward transforming and improving society at large. History, painting, and the seriousness of pleasure in the age of Louis XV reconsiders the role of history painting in creating a new visual language that presented peace and happiness as an individual's natural rights in the aftermath of Louis XIV's bellicose reign (1643-1715). In this new study, Susanna Caviglia reinvestigates the artistic practices of an entire generation of painters born around 1700 (e.g., Francois Boucher, Charles-Joseph Natoire, and Carle Vanloo) in order to highlight the cultural forces at work within their now iconic images. -- Publisher. ER -