East Asian Aesthetics and the Space of Painting in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Isabelle Tillerot

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Getty Research Institute,U.S.
02 January 2024

Oriental art; History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; Painting & paintings

An insightful look at how East Asian notions of space transformed Western painting.

This volume offers the first critical account of how European imports of East Asian textiles, porcelain, and lacquers, along with newly published descriptions of the Chinese garden, inspired a revolution in the role of painting in early modern Europe. With particular focus on French interiors, Isabelle Tillerot reveals how a European enthusiasm for East Asian culture and a demand for novelty transformed the dynamic between painting and decor. Models of space, landscape, and horizon, as shown in Chinese and Japanese objects and their ornamentation, disrupted prevailing design concepts in Europe. With paintings no longer functioning as pictorial windows, they began to be viewed as discrete images displayed on a wall—and with that, their status changed from decorative device to autonomous work of art.

This study presents a detailed history of this transformation, revealing how an aesthetic free from the constraints of symmetry and geometrized order upended paradigms of display, enabling European painting to come into its own.

By: Isabelle Tillerot
Imprint: Getty Research Institute,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm,
ISBN: 9781606067970
ISBN 10: 1606067974
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 02 January 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword - Mark Ledbury Introduction The Places of Painting Decor and Time The Trajectory of the Arabesque The Orient of Decoration The Oriental Idea of Taste Another Way of Representing the World Conclusion: Oriental Caprice or Making an Island of the Picture

Isabelle Tillerot is an independent scholar of eighteenth-century French art. She is the author of Jean de Jullienne et les collectionneurs de son temps: Un regard singulier sur le tableau (2010) and Beautés arbitraires: Essai sur l'imagination à l'epoque moderne (2021).

Reviews for East Asian Aesthetics and the Space of Painting in Eighteenth-Century Europe

""Tillerot's book now available in English will provide scholars of eighteenth-century art and architecture new territory for research.""--Beverly Mitchell ""ARLIS/NA"" (3/1/2024 12:00:00 AM)