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[caption id="attachment_9407" align="aligncenter" width="336"] CAVIGLIA Susanna, History, Painting, and the Seriousness of Pleasure in the Age of Louis XV, Liverpool, Voltaire Foundation in association with Liverpool University Press, 2020, 330 p.[/caption]Présentation de l'éditeur :French painting of Louis XV’s reign (1715–74), generally categorized by the term rococo, has typically been understood as an artistic style aimed at furnishing courtly society with delightful images of its own frivolous pursuits. Instead, this book shows the significance and seriousness underpinning the notion of pleasure embedded in eighteenth-century history painting. During this time, pleasure became a moral ideal grounded not only in domestic life but also defining a range of social, political, and cultural transactions oriented toward transforming and improving society at large. History, Painting, and the Seriousness of Pleasure in the Age of Louis XV reconsiders the role of history painting in creating a new visual language that presented peace and happiness as an individual’s natural rights in the aftermath of Louis XIV’s bellicose reign (1643–1715). In this new study, Susanna Caviglia reinvestigates the artistic practices of an entire generation of painters born around 1700 (e.g. Francois Boucher, Charles-Joseph Natoire, and Carle Vanloo) in order to highlight the cultural forces at work within their now iconic images.Susanna Caviglia is the Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Art, Art History &#38; Visual Studies at Duke University. Her work focuses on early modern European art and culture with an emphasis on France and Italy. Her interests include the body in art, theory and practice of drawing, and cross-cultural relationships within the Mediterranean world. She is the author of Charles-Joseph Natoire (1700–1777) (Arthena, 2012).Table des matières :IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1  The Action de Repos2  Corporeality and Repose3  Figure / Study / Artwork4  The Story behind the Figure5  Before the PaintingEpilogue: On Novelty in PaintingPlus d’informations sur le site de l’éditeur.