Fabrics and literature.
Exhibition catalog. Edited by MONTANDON Alain, FONTAINE Alexia.

Fabrics and literature.

Silvana Editorial
Regular price €28,00 €0,00 Unit price per
N° d'inventaire 25738
Format 21.5 x 26.5
Détails 160 p., color illustrations, paperback.
Publication Milan, 2021
Etat Nine
ISBN 9788836649242

Among the fabrics known as "toile de Jouy," some depict literary and musical themes that were once in vogue. By providing as many images to read as to see in furnishings, they undoubtedly represent a way to embellish interiors, while displaying culture and affirming good taste in the eyes of others, and first of all, oneself. Conducive to reverie, responding to a narrative logic, the historiated canvases quickly established themselves as a new decorative art.

The catalog Fabrics and literature invites you on a journey into the world of literature, theater and music of the 18th and 19th centuries, through the emotions, reflections and aspirations relayed by the Indians. This richly illustrated work allows you to discover the cultural history, ideologies and aesthetics of an era, and is divided into several "desires" according to the feeling that captures the attention of the Indians and which leads the users of the printed canvases to decorate their interiors with literary motifs.

Among the fabrics known as "toile de Jouy," some depict literary and musical themes that were once in vogue. By providing as many images to read as to see in furnishings, they undoubtedly represent a way to embellish interiors, while displaying culture and affirming good taste in the eyes of others, and first of all, oneself. Conducive to reverie, responding to a narrative logic, the historiated canvases quickly established themselves as a new decorative art.

The catalog Fabrics and literature invites you on a journey into the world of literature, theater and music of the 18th and 19th centuries, through the emotions, reflections and aspirations relayed by the Indians. This richly illustrated work allows you to discover the cultural history, ideologies and aesthetics of an era, and is divided into several "desires" according to the feeling that captures the attention of the Indians and which leads the users of the printed canvases to decorate their interiors with literary motifs.