Fancy in Eighteenth-Century European Visual Culture
- Submitting institution
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University of Exeter
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 3757
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Voltaire Foundation
- ISBN
- 9781789620030
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- Percival is responsible for the intellectual genesis of the book. It is her third substantial and discrete output on the topic of fancy/fantasy (following on from the exhibition Figures de fantaisie dans la peinture européenne du XVIe au XVIIIe siècles – the catalogue is a REF2021 UoA26 output – and her book, Fragonard and the Fantasy Figure, 2012). Adrien played an invaluable role, firstly as joint organiser with Percival of the conference in Toulouse that initially brought the scholars together, and subsequently as co-editor, ensuring the book’s smooth production and editorial standards. The Introduction, written by Percival, defines fancy as an aesthetic term and visual practice, making hitherto unremarked connections within eighteenth-century discourse and culture, and mapping the wider field. The essays by other authors exemplify and illustrate the Introduction’s central premise: that fancy had reach and significance across media and geography. Both editors carefully considered how to structure the volume so that the essays would speak to each other, as well as referring back to the Introduction. As a departure from her previous focus on figure painting, Percival additionally contributed a chapter that links fancy to consumer culture through an exploration of sales materials. That piece has particular consonance with essays in the volume by Alayrac and Biger.
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