In The Mobile Image from Watteau to Boucher (Getty Research Institute, $60), he examines the careers of Antoine Watteau, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, and François Boucher, situating them against a much broader cast of actors—such as printmakers, publishers, anonymous studio assistants, and architects, among others—to place 18th-century painting within a wider context of media and making. Abandoning the ideologically driven discourse that distinguished fine from decorative arts between the 1690s and 1770s, The Mobile Image reveals how the two have been inextricably bound from the earliest stages of artistic instruction through the daily life of painters’ workshops.
New Book Provides In-Depth Look at 18th-Century French Visual Culture
This volume explores the role of the image and the link between the fine and decorative arts in French art
Topics
The Mobile Image from Watteau to Boucher
Author
David Pullins
Body Content
In this study of 18th-century French art and visual culture, author David Pullins defines artisanal and artistic means of learning, seeing, and making through a system of “mobile images”: motifs that were effectively engineered for mobility and designed never to be definitive, always awaiting replication and circulation.
The Mobile Image from Watteau to Boucher
$60/£50
