Dairy Queens: The Politics of Pastoral Architecture from Catherine de' Medici to Marie-Antoinette
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- Synopsis
- These garden structures―most famously the faux-rustic, white marble dairy built for Marie-Antoinette’s Hameau at Versailles―have long been dismissed as the trifling follies of a reckless elite. Martin challenges such assumptions and reveals the pivotal role that pleasure dairies played in cultural and political life, especially with respect to polarizing debates about nobility, femininity, and domesticity. Together with other forms of pastoral architecture such as model farms and hermitages, pleasure dairies were crucial arenas for elite women to exercise and experiment with identity and power.
- Copyright:
- 2011
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 328 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780674048997
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press
- Date of Addition:
- 01/19/16
- Copyrighted By:
- The President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Social Studies, Politics and Government, Sociology
- Submitted By:
- Worth Trust
- Proofread By:
- Worth Trust
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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