Taste and power : furnishing Modern France /

Enlivened and enriched by Auslander's experiences as a cabinetmaker, this pathbreaking work demonstrates that in post-Revolutionary France, furniture and consumer goods became newly important means of constituting selves, social class, and, perhaps most significantly, the economy and society of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Auslander, Leora
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1996.
Colección:Studies on the history of society and culture ; 24.
Temas:
Since 1789
Furniture > Styles > Social aspects > France.
Social change > France.
Politics and culture > France.
Meubles > Styles > Aspect social > France.
Changement social > France.
Politique et culture > France.
HISTORY.
HISTORY / Europe / General
Civilization.
Furniture > Styles > Social aspects.
Politics and government
Politics and culture.
Social change.
France > Civilization.
France > Politics and government > 1789-
France > Civilisation.
France > Politique et gouvernement > 1789-
France.
Furniture > Design > History
France
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The courtly stylistic regime: representation and power under absolutism
  • Negotiating absolute power: city, crown, and church
  • Fathers, masters and kings: mirroring monarchical power
  • Revolutionary transformation: the demise of the culture of production and the courtly stylistic regime
  • The new politics of the everyday: making class through taste and knowledge
  • The separation of aesthetics and productive labor
  • The bourgeoisie as consumers: social representation and power in the third republic
  • Style in the new commercial world
  • After the culture of production: the paradox of labor and citizenship
  • Style, the nation, and the market: the paradoxes of representation in a capitalist republic
  • Epilogue: toward a mass stylistic regime: the citizen
  • consumer.

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