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Rococo echo
art, history and historiography
from Cochin to Coppola
Ed. MELISSA LEE HYDE and KATIE SCOTT
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Rococo echo: art, history and historiography from Cochin to Coppola
Ed. MELISSA LEE HYDE and KATIE SCOTT
Intermittently in and out of fashion, the persistence of the Rococo from the eighteenth
century to the twenty-first is clear. From painting, print and photography, to furniture,
fashion and film, the Rococo’s diverse manifestations appear to defy temporal and
geographic definition.
In Rococo echo, a team of international contributors adopts a wide lens to explore
the relationship of the Rococo with time. Through chapters organised around broad
temporal moments – the French Revolution, the First World War and the turn of the
twenty-first century – contributors show that the Rococo has been viewed variously as
modern, late, ruined, revived, preserved and anticipated. Taking into account the
temporality of the Rococo as form, some contributors consider its function as both a
visual language and a cultural marker engaged in different ways with the politics of
nationalism, gender and race. The Rococo is examined, too, as a mode of expression
that encompassed and assimilated styles, and which functioned as a surprisingly
effective means of resisting both authority – whether political, religious or artistic – and
cultural norms of gender and class. Contributors also show how the Rococo, from its
birth in France, reverberated through England, Germany, Italy, Portugal and the South
American colonies to become a pan-European, even global movement.
The Rococo emerges from these contributions as a discourse defined but not
confined by its original historical moment, and whose adaptability to the styles and
preoccupations of later periods gives it a value and significance that take it beyond the
vagaries of fashion.
Foreword. Rococo echo: style and temporality, KATIE SCOTT
I. Rococo revivals: the nineteenth century
1. The uncomfortable Frenchness of the German Rococo, MICHAEL YONAN
2. Rococo republicanism, ELIZABETH MANSFIELD
3. Scavenging Rococo: trouvailles, bibelots and counter-revolution, TOM STAMMERS
4. Vive l’amateur! The Goncourt house revisited, ANDREW McCLELLAN
5. Pierrot’s periodicity: Watteau, Nadar and the circulation of the Rococo, MARIKA T.
KNOWLES
6. Remembrance of things past: Robert de Montesquiou, Emile Gallé and Rococo
revival during the fin de siècle, MEREDITH MARTIN
7. Irregular rococo Impressionism, ANNE HIGONNET
II. Rococo: the eighteenth century
8. Was there such a thing as rococo painting in eighteenth-century France? COLIN B.
BAILEY
9. ‘A wild kind of imagination’: eclecticism and excess in the English rococo designs
of Thomas Johnson, BRIGID VON PREUSSEN
10. Out of time: Fragonard, with David, SATISH PADIYAR
11. Rococo and spirituality from Paris to Rio de Janeiro, GAUVIN ALEXANDER BAILEY
III. New Rococo: the twentieth century and beyond
12. Sedlmayr’s Rococo, KEVIN CHUA
13. Warhol’s Rococo: style and subversion in the 1950s, ALLISON UNRUH
14. The new Rococo: Sofia Coppola and fashions in contemporary femininity,
REBECCA ARNOLD
15. Post-colonial Rococo: Yinka Shonibare MBE plays Fragonard, SARAH WILSON
16. The Rococo revival and the old art history, CAROL DUNCAN
Afterword. The Rococo dream of happiness as ‘a delicate kind of revolt’, MELISSA LEE
HYDE
List of illustrations
Melissa Lee Hyde is Professor of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European art at the
University of Florida, and her work focuses on gender and visual culture in France. She is
currently writing a monograph on Marie-Suzanne Roslin and is co-authoring a book with Mary
D. Sheriff on women in French art.
Katie Scott is a professor at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She has written widely about the
Rococo in relation to issues of class, race and gender and is currently writing a book on the
origins of intellectual property in France before the 1793 Act of the rights of genius.
Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, December 2014
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