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From Cythera to Tahiti: French Art and the Enchanted Island
This book analyzes concepts of heroism, pleasure, Frenchness,
masculinity, and femininity through interpreting visual and textual
representations of enchanted islands. Alluring women dominate these
islands, which range from Cythera, the realm of Venus herself, to
Tahiti, the island paradise Bougainville "discovered" and Gauguin
painted. Along the way, the study stops at those islands ruled by
Calypso in The Adventures of Telemachus, Alcina, in Orlando Furioso and Armida in Jerusalem Delivered, and examines their representation in painting, theater, epic, book illustration, royal fêtes and travel literature.
Travels in Eighteenth-Century Art.
Co-authored with Christopher Johns. This book will offer a new history
of the art produced in Europe between about 1680 and 1800. This history
is organized around the movement of artists, patrons, voyagers, and
objects both across Europe and between Europe and Asia, Africa, the
Americas, and the South Pacific. The book emphasizes how diverse
practices of cultural exchange shaped art making in a period marked by
both national and international tourism as well as colonial expansion.
The book will examine “national traditions” as a historical construct
and argue that art produced in eighteenth-century Europe is better
understood through the collision between an imagined “national
tradition” and real contact with art and peoples—both European and
non-European-- thought to be outside that tradition.
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