LEADER 03260oam 2200529I 450 001 9910495878703321 005 20221108083813.0 010 $a0-520-37758-3 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520377585 035 $a(CKB)4100000011418243 035 $a(OCoLC)ocm56797923 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31326988 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31326988 035 $a(OCoLC)1436831870 035 $a(DE-B1597)694847 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520377585 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011418243 100 $a20200908d1992 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurbn#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe enlightenment against the Baroque $eeconomics and aesthetics in the eighteenth century /$fRe?my G. Saisselin 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aBerkeley :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[1992] 215 $a1 online resource (156 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aQuantum books 311 $a0-520-30223-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [143]-148) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Pascal's Room, Mandeville's Bees, and Baroque Spending -- $t2. "Doing In" the Baroque -- $t3. True Taste Recovered and the Baroque Transfigured -- $tConclusion: The End of the Baroque and the Invention of Aesthetic Art -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aHow do seemingly disparate arenas of Enlightenment philosophy, economic theories, boudoir etiquette, literary styles, and artistic modes coincide in the late eighteenth century? In this poetic essay on the evolution of the idea of luxury and art, Rémy G. Saisselin uses precise, witty examples to describe the development of our modern taste, the successor of the more spiritual and grand baroque goût. His analysis both illuminates and distinguishes between eighteenth-century and modern varieties of conspicuous consumption.   This persuasive discourse depicts the rise of luxe as an escape from ennui and shows how, for the first time in European history, a large class of wealthy, leisured people emerged to make art, luxury, and the avoidance of boredom its preoccupation. Saisselin provides an original and lucid picture of the first phases in the emergence of a specifically bourgeois taste.  This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992. 410 0$aQuantum Bks. 606 $aCivilization, Baroque 606 $aEnlightenment 607 $aEurope$xCivilization$y18th century 615 0$aCivilization, Baroque. 615 0$aEnlightenment. 700 $aSaisselin$b Re?my G$g(Re?my Gilbert),$f1925-$0392295 712 02$aCalifornia Digital Library.$beScholarship. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495878703321 996 $aThe enlightenment against the Baroque$92812566 997 $aUNINA