Chinoiserie: Commerce and Critical Ornament in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Stacey Sloboda

Chinoiserie: Commerce and Critical Ornament in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Studies in Design (Hardcover)

Stacey Sloboda

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In a critical reassessment of chinoiserie, a style both praised and derided for its triviality, prettiness and ornamental excesses, Stacey Sloboda argues that chinoiserie was no mute participant in eighteenth-century global consumer culture, but w...

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