Watteau, Reverie, and Selfhood

• Autores: Aaron Wile
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 96, Nº 3, 2014, págs. 319-337
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Watteau’s fetes galantes break with key aspects of academic art theory in early eighteenth-century France, particularly as put forward by Roger de Piles, to elicit an experience of reverie in the spectator. Watteau’s formal innovations inaugurated a new relationship between painting and beholder that opened up a new sphere of subjective experience, linking the artist’s enterprise with the rise of modern interiority.