The Painter's Touch: Boucher, Chardin, Fragonard

by Ewa Lajer-Burcharth

Book Overview

A new interpretation of the development of artistic modernity in eighteenth-century France

What can be gained from considering a painting not only as an image but also a material object? How does the painter's own experience of the process of making matter for our understanding of both the painting and its maker? The Painter's Touch addresses these questions to offer a radical reinterpretation of three paradigmatic French painters...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691170126
• ISBN13: 9780691170121
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 4.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.1" x 11.7"