Persuasion: Nicolas Pineau's Designs on the Social

RIHA Journal

关键词: actor-network;    rococo;    drawing;    Jean-François Bastide;    Bruno Latour;    Nicolas Pineau;   

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【 摘 要 】

This essay offers a Latourian account of the wood sculptor Nicolas Pineau's design process via a reading of Jean-François Bastide's novella La petite maison. It argues that the conventional form assumed by his drawings or 'inscriptions' – the indications of scale, the delineation of options, the signatures and marginal notes – can be read as traces of seduction that helped 'translate' potential patrons to a taste for Rococo. The essay further suggests that the activation of the taste at the point of commission was kept alive in the designs executed by the bi-modal asymmetry that is characteristic of the goût pittoresque because its exercise was considered a mark of refinement.

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