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Taste and Power

Furnishing Modern France

By: Leora Auslander

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Paperback | 24 April 1998 | Edition Number 1

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Louis XIV, regency, rococo, neoclassical, empire, art nouveau, and historicist pastiche: furniture styles march across French history as regimes rise and fall. In this extraordinary social history, Leora Auslander explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid-seventeenth to the early twentieth century, revealing how the aesthetics of everyday life were as integral to political events as to economic and social transformations. Enriched by Auslander's experience as a cabinetmaker, this work demonstrates how furniture served to represent and even generate its makers' and consumers' identities.

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"Auslander . . . repeatedly brings out the deep implications of the seemingly trivial and gendered choices that ordinary mortals unthinkingly make from day to day."--Patrice Higonnet, "Times Literary Supplement

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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Representation, Style, and Taste: The Politics of Everyday Life	p. 1
The Courtly Stylistic Regime: Representation and Power under Absolutism	p. 35
Negotiating Absolute Power: City, Crown, and Church	p. 75
Fathers, Masters, and Kings: Mirroring Monarchical Power	p. 110
Revolutionary Transformation: The Demise of the Culture of Production and of the Courtly Stylistic Regime	p. 147
The New Politics of the Everyday: Making Class through Taste and Knowledge	p. 186
The Separation of Aesthetics and Productive Labor	p. 225
The Bourgeoisie as Consumers: Social Representation and Power in the Third Republic	p. 261
Style in the New Commercial World	p. 306
After the Culture of Production: The Paradox of Labor and Citizenship	p. 351
Style, the Nation, and the Market: The Paradoxes of Representation in a Capitalist Republic	p. 377
Epilogue: Toward a Mass Stylistic Regime: The Citizen-Consumer	p. 415
Bibliography	p. 427
General Index	p. 469
Index of Names	p. 493
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