Artists' Things: Rediscovering Lost Property from Eighteenth-Century France

by Katie Scott and Hannah Williams

Artists are makers Of things. Yet it is a measure of the disembodied manner in which we generally think about artists that we rarely consider the everyday items they own. This innovative book looks at objects that once belonged to artists, revealing not only the fabric of the eighteenth-century art world in France but also unfamiliar-and sometimes unexpected-insights into the individuals who populated it, including Jean-Antoine Watteau, Fran?ois Boucher,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606068636
• ISBN13: 9781606068632
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Getty Research Institute
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 2.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"