Noble Beasts

Name: Noble Beasts
Brand: Yale University Press
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Hunters and Hunted in Eighteenth-Century French Art

Autor: Amy Freund

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How visual fantasies of violence, animality, and political agency offered an alternative image of ma...

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Autor

Amy Freund

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2026

Pagini

248

EAN

9780300282702

Enbook ID

49219960

Editura

Yale University Press

Greutate

666

Dimensiuni

216 x 279

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How visual fantasies of violence, animality, and political agency offered an alternative image of masculinity during the Enlightenment Centering on animal bodies and assertive masculinity, the visual strategies of hunting art may appear incongruent with our understanding of Rococo aesthetics and the early Enlightenment. But these themes, embraced with enthusiasm by artists and patrons, inspired artworks in every genre and medium in eighteenth-century France. As the country expanded its colonial empire, the absolute monarchy existed in tension with ambitious elites, and the Enlightenment eroded old certainties about selfhood and society, hunting art provided a visual language of personal and national sovereignty written with bodies of men and animals. Amy Freund revises our received notions of eighteenth-century French art and culture, confronting us with a visual culture of animality, violence, and death: a Rococo of dogs and guns. Noble Beasts highlights the work of Franc¸ois Desportes, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, and others who, operating from the heart of institutions such as the Royal Academy and the Gobelins manufactory, produced an astonishing volume of highly accomplished work. The book draws on the critical frameworks of human-animal studies and on Enlightenment philosophical debates to explore how and why hunting art’s aesthetic and political claims blurred the lines between human and animal.

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