Louis XIV, regency, rococo, neoclassical, empire, art nouveau, and historicist pastiche: furniture styles march across French history as regimes rise and fall. In this extraordinary social history, Leora Auslander explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century, revealing how the aesthetics of everyday life were as integral to political events as to economic and social transformations. Enriched by Auslander's experience as a cabinetmaker, this work demonstrates how furniture served to represent and even generate its makers' and consumers' identities.
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Publisher
University of California PressYear
2023Print ISBN
9780520088948
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1eBook ISBN
9780520920941
Table of contents
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- INTRODUCTION. Representation, Style, and Taste: The Politics of Everyday Life
- PART ONE. The Paradox of Absolutism: The Power of the Monarch's Limits
- 1. The Courtly Stylistic Regime: Representation and Power under Absolutism
- 2. Negotiating Absolute Power: City, Crown, and Church
- 3. Fathers, Masters, and Kings: Mirroring Monarchical Power
- PART TWO. From Style to Taste: Transitions to the Bourgeois Stylistic Regime
- 4. Revolutionary Transformation: The Demise of the Culture of Production and of the Courtly Stylistic Regime
- 5. The New Politics of the Everyday: Making Class through Taste and Knowledge
- 6. The Separation of Aesthetics and Productive Labor
- PART THREE. The Bourgeois Stylistic Regime: Representation, Nation, State, and the Everyday
- 7. The Bourgeoisie as Consumers: Social Representation and Power in the Third Republic
- 8. Style in the New Commercial World
- 9. After the Culture of Production: The Paradox of Labor and Citizenship
- 10. Style, the Nation, and the Market: The Paradoxes of Representation in a Capitalist Republic
- EPILOGUE. Toward a Mass Stylistic Regime: The Citizen-Consumer
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index of Names
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