Reconsidering the economy of the eighteenth-century portrait bust : Roubiliac and Houdon

Author

Baker, Malcolm

Document type

Article (acte de congrès)

Language

English

Conference title

Pygmalions Aufklärung : europäische Skulptur im 18. Jahrhundert

Author (monograph)

Kanz, Roland (Editor, Collective Author); Körner, Hans (Editor, Collective Author)

Source

Pygmalions Aufklärung : europäische Skulptur im 18. Jahrhundert. 2006, 132-145, 8 ill.

Publisher

Deutscher Kunstverlag, München (DEU)

Publication country

Germany

Abstract (en)

Compares and contrasts the ways in which Louis François Roubiliac and Jean-Antoine Houdon contributed to the modernization and commercialization of the portrait bust within their respective economic, cultural, and artistic contexts.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1400-1800 -- Sculpture
• Houdon, Jean-Antoine, 1741-1828
• France
• Roubiliac, Louis François, 1702-1762
• Great Britain
• 1700-1900
• Social reform
• Artistic change
• Economics
• Commercialism
• Sculpture
• Busts

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1400-1800 -- Sculpture
• Houdon, Jean-Antoine, 1741-1828
• France
• Roubiliac, Louis François, 1702-1762
• Grande-Bretagne
• 1700-1900
• Réforme sociale
• Changement artistique
• Economie
• Pratique commerciale
• Sculpture
• Buste

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier20060701-00025666

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