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8%OFFMeredith Martin - Dairy Queens: The Politics of Pastoral Architecture from Catherine de´ Medici to Marie-Antoinette - 9780674048997 - V9780674048997
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Dairy Queens: The Politics of Pastoral Architecture from Catherine de´ Medici to Marie-Antoinette

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Description for Dairy Queens: The Politics of Pastoral Architecture from Catherine de´ Medici to Marie-Antoinette Hardback. Explores how French queens and noblewomen of early modern France, used pleasure dairies to naturalize their status, display their cultivated tastes, and proclaim their virtue as nurturing mothers and capable estate managers. This title sheds light on architecture, self, and society in the ancient regime. Series: Harvard Historical Studies. Num Pages: 336 pages, 82 color illustrations, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 243 x 23. Weight in Grams: 728.

In a lively narrative that spans more than two centuries, Meredith Martin tells the story of a royal and aristocratic building type that has been largely forgotten today: the pleasure dairy of early modern France. 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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Series
Harvard Historical Studies
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674048997
SKU
V9780674048997
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About Meredith Martin
Meredith Martin is Assistant Professor of Art, Wellesley College.

Reviews for Dairy Queens: The Politics of Pastoral Architecture from Catherine de´ Medici to Marie-Antoinette
An innovative and pathbreaking study. Martin demolishes the assumption that pleasure dairies were the frivolous products of a 'let-them-eat-cake' state of mind. They helped shape a range of significant discourses on health, femininity, nobility, pleasure, nature, and utility. Written in clear, lucid prose, this book will appeal to a wide readership.
Mary Sheriff, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill ... Read more

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