{"product_id":"9781606067970-east-asian-aesthetics-and-the-space-of","title":"East Asian Aesthetics and the Space of Painting in Eighteenth-Century Europe","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book offers the first account of how European imports of East Asian textiles, porcelain \u0026amp; lacquers, along with newly published descriptions of the Chinese garden, inspired a revolution in the role of painting in early modern Europe. Isabelle Tillerot reveals how the enthusiasm for this culture transformed the dynamic between painting \u0026amp; decor.\u003cbr\u003eThis volume offers the first critical account of how European imports of East Asian textiles, porcelain, and lacquers, along with newly published descriptions of the Chinese garden, inspired a revolution in the role of painting in early modern Europe. With particular focus on French interiors, Isabelle Tillerot reveals how a European enthusiasm for East Asian culture and a demand for novelty transformed the dynamic between painting and decor. Models of space, landscape, and horizon, as shown in Chinese and Japanese objects and their ornamentation, disrupted prevailing design concepts in Europe. With paintings no longer functioning as pictorial windows, they began to be viewed as discrete images displayed on a wall—and with that, their status changed from decorative device to autonomous work of art.This study presents a detailed history of this transformation, revealing how an aesthetic free from the constraints of symmetry and geometrized order upended paradigms of display, enabling European painting to come into its own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41271256023137,"sku":"9781606067970","price":62.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_26975986.jpg?v=1721396391","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781606067970-east-asian-aesthetics-and-the-space-of","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}