Figures de fantaisie dans la peinture européenne du XVIe au XVIIIe siecles
- Submitting institution
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University of Exeter
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 3665
- Type
- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- Somogy
- ISBN
- 978-2757209981
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2015
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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5
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This catalogue accompanied an exhibition, Ceci n’est pas un portrait: 'Figures de fantaisie de Murillo, Fragonard, Tiepolo…' held at the musée des Augustins, Toulouse, in 2015-16 and co-curated by Percival and the museum director Axel Hémery. The idea for the project originated in Percival’s book 'Fragonard and the Fantasy Figure', 2012 which identified a type of imaginary single figure that is widespread in European art but has never before been regarded as an entity. The scope of the exhibition (Europe-wide and covering several centuries) as well as the choice of exhibits was substantially enhanced through Percival’s collaboration with Hémery. Together they decided on the thematic arrangement of pictures that is replicated in the catalogue. Each curator wrote approximately half the catalogue entries, with Hémery focusing on artists of the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and Percival on those of the eighteenth century (these are identified in the catalogue by the author’s initials). Percival had primary responsibility for commissioning the essays by Bronwen Wilson, Martin Postle, John Chu and Petra Chu that provide further scholarly insights into selected areas of this broad subject. Further reflection on the subject of fantasy (fancy) took place at a conference organised by Percival with a colleague from the University of Toulouse that coincided with the exhibition. These papers were subsequently published as an edited book, 'Fancy in Eighteenth-Century Visual Culture', that is also submitted to REF2021 under UoA26.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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