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**A new interpretation of the development of artistic modernity in eighteenth-century France** What can be gained from considering a painting not only as an image but also a material object? How does the painter’s own experience of the process of making matter for our understanding of both the painting and its maker? __The Painter’s Touch__ addresses these questions to offer a radical reinterpretation of three paradigmatic French painters of the eighteenth century. In this beautifully illustrated book, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth provides close readings of the works of François Boucher, Jean-Siméon Chardin, and Jean-Honoré Fragonard, entirely recasting our understanding of these painters’ practice. Using the notion of touch, she examines the implications of their strategic investment in materiality and sheds light on the distinct contribution of painting to the culture of the Enlightenment. Lajer-Burcharth traces how the distinct logic of these painters’ work―the operation of surface in Boucher, the deep materiality of Chardin, and the dynamic morphological structure in Fragonard―contributed to the formation of artistic identity. Through the notion of touch, she repositions these painters

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Author

Ewa Lajer-Burcharth

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691170121

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, History, History & Criticism

Updated

2026-03-24