The Fabrication Of Louis Xiv Peter Burke Yale University Press Αγγλικά Βιβλία Arts Art General

Louis Xiv Was A Man Like Any Other But The Money And Attention Lavished On His Public Image By French Government Transformed Him Into Godlike Figure In This Engrossing Book An Internationally Respected Historian Gives Account Of Contemporary Representations Shows How Making Royal Illuminates Relationship Between Art Power Images Included Hundreds Oil Paintings Engravings Three-Hundred-Odd Medals Struck To Commemorate Major Events Reign Sculptures Bronzes As Well Plays Ballets (In Which King Himself Sometimes Appeared Stage) Operas Odes Sermons Official Newspapers Histories Fireworks Fountains Tapestries Drawing Analysis These Surviving Documentary Sources Peter Burke Conscious Attempt \ Invent\ Reveals Supervision Entrusted Commitee So-Called Small Academy Is Not Only Fascinating Chronological Study Mechanics Image-Making Over Course Seventy-Year Also Investigation Genre Cultural Construction Discusses Element Propaganda Implicit Manipulation Seventeenth-Century Media Communication (Oral Visual Textual) Their Codes (Literary Artistic) Intended Audience Its Response He Concludes Comparing Contrasting Louis\ S With That Rulers Ranging From Augustus American Presidents Σελίδες: 256 Έτος Έκδοσης: 0323 Διαστάσεις: 15 9X15 9Cm