Triumph of pleasure, the: louis xiv and the politics of spectacle
Auteur :
Cowart, Georgia J.
Éditeur :
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN :
9780226211558
Date de publication :
20 oct. 2014
Dimensions :
2,4 x 1,6 x 0,2 cm
Poids :
454 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Prominent components of Louis XIV's propaganda, the arts of spectacle also became sources of a potent resistance to the monarchy in late seventeenth-century France. The author tells the story of how the festive arts deployed an intricate network of subversive satire to undermine the rhetoric of sovereign authority.