ART, DANCE, AND THE BODY IN FRENCH CULTURE OF THE ANCIEN REGIME BY SARAH COHEN

ART, DANCE, AND THE BODY IN FRENCH CULTURE OF THE ANCIEN REGIME BY SARAH COHEN

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[COHEN, SARAH R.]. Art, Dance, and the Body in French Culture of the Ancien Régime. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

First edition. Inscribed by author. Cloth-bound. Hardcover. Quarto (260 x 160 x 25 mm.). Pp. xv, 352. Publisher's original burgundy cloth covers with silver titles to spine. Illustrated throughout. Presented in original unclipped dust jacket. Nicely inscribed by author to fep. Contents: Introduction: The artful body; 1. The court ballet; 2. Art as spectacle; 3. Aristocratic traceries; 4. The universal masquerade; 5. Watteau's performers; 6. Collective rituals; 7. The artful body in question; Notes; Selected bibliography; Index. Condition: LIKE NEW. Hardly used.

Notes: An interdisciplinary study of images produced in France during the reign of Louis XIV. Cohen demonstrates the parallels among different visual forms and uses these interrelationships to prove the changing significance of the 'artful body' within French culture of the ancien regime.

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