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    Making Ideas Visible in the Eighteenth Century

    Jennifer Milam (Edited by), Nicola Parsons (Edited by), David Maskill (Contributions by), Jessica Priebe (Contributions by), Matthew J. Martin (Contributions by), Jennifer Milam (Contributions by), Jessica Fripp (Contributions by), Wiebke Windorf (Contributions by), Melanie Cooper (Contributions by), Jennifer Ferng (Contributions by)

    9781644532331

    Paperback / softback, published 14 January 2022

    240 pages, 46 b-w images, 26 color images
    22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.313 kg

    "Making Ideas Visible is an important collection that will appeal to scholars from a variety of disciplines. Those teaching early-modern literature and history will find useful representations of ideas that are often less accessible in printed texts. Many of the book’s images will find a home in my instructional materials, and the authors’ insightful interpretations will inform our class discussions. Milam and Parsons should be congratulated for selecting such keen essays, each of which is handsomely produced and carefully documented." - Christopher D. Johnson, Francis Marion University (The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer)

    This volume considers how ideas were made visible through the making of art and visual experience occasioned by reception during the long eighteenth century. The event that gave rise to the collection was the 15th David Nichol Smith Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies, which launched a new Australian and New Zealand Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies. Two strands of interest are explored by the individual authors. The first four essays work with ideas about material objects and identity formation, suggesting how the artist's physical environment contributes to the sense of self, as a practicing artist or artisan, as an individual patron or collector, or as a woman or religious outsider. The last four essays address the intellectual work that can be expressed through or performed by objects. Through a consideration of the material formation of concepts, this book explores questions that are implicated by the need to see ideas in painted, sculpted, illustrated, and designed forms. In doing so, it introduces new visual materials and novel conceptual models into traditional accounts of the intellectual history of the Enlightenment.

    List of Illustrations
    Acknowledgments
    Introduction: The Potential Visibility of Ideas in Enlightenment Art and Aesthetics
    Jennifer Milam (University of Newcastle) and Nicola Parsons (University of Sydney)

    Chapter 1: A Good Address: Living at the Louvre in the Eighteenth Century
    David Maskill (Victoria University of Wellington)
    Chapter 2: Inventing Artifice: FranÇ
    ois Boucher’
    s Collection at the Louvre
    Jessica Priebe (University of Sydney)
    Chapter 3: Continental Porcelain Made in England: The Case of the Chelsea Porcelain Factory
    Matthew Martin (University of Melbourne)
    Chapter 4: Planting Cosmopolitan Ideals: Thomas Jefferson’
    s Poplar Forest
    Jennifer Milam (University of Newcastle)
    Chapter 5: Growing Old in Public in Eighteenth-Century France: Marie-ThÉ
    rese Geoffrin and Marie Leszczynska
    Jessica L. Fripp (Texas Christian University)
    Chapter 6: French Funeral Monuments of the Ancien RÉ
    gime as Products of Individual Artistic Solutions
    Wiebke Windorf (University of DÜ
    sseldorf)
    Chapter 7: Meeting the Locals: Mythical Images of the Indigenous Other in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
    Melanie Cooper (University of Adelaide)
    Chapter 8: Infernal Machines: Designing the Bomb Vessel as Transnational Technology
    Jennifer Ferng (University of Sydney)

    Notes on the Contributors
    Index
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