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Jean JIMENEZ (Réalisation), Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès-campus Mirail (Production), SCPAM / Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès-campus Mirail (Publication), Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding (Intervention)

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DOI : 10.60527/7w4n-2t60

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Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding. UT2J. (2015, 3 décembre). "A Butterfly Supporting an Elephant": Chinoiserie in Eighteenth-Century England, or "the Luxuriance of Fancy" / Vanessa Alayrac , in Fancy-Fantaisie-Capriccio: Diversions and Distractions in the Eighteenth Century. [Vidéo]. Canal-U. https://doi.org/10.60527/7w4n-2t60. (Consultée le 24 mai 2024)

"A Butterfly Supporting an Elephant": Chinoiserie in Eighteenth-Century England, or "the Luxuriance of Fancy" / Vanessa Alayrac

Réalisation : 3 décembre 2015 - Mise en ligne : 15 octobre 2016

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"A Butterfly Supporting an Elephant": Chinoiserie in Eighteenth-Century England, or "the Luxuriance of Fancy" / Vanessa Alayrac, in colloque international organisé, sous la responsabilité scientifique de Muriel Adrien, Melissa Percival et Axel Hémery, par l’Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès et l’Université d’Exeter. Toulouse, Musée Paul-Dupuy, 3-4 décembre 2015.

Two visions of China co-existed In the eighteenth-century in England, and in Europe at large, one that could be associated with the development of the Rococo chinoiserie style in Europe, whilst the other offered a more serious, scholarly and philosophical approach to the manners and customs of the Confucian Middle Kingdom. The fashion for chinoiserie in the decorative arts was often ascribed to the lure of exoticism, spurred by the fanciful, sometimes whimsical work of the imagination. Indeed in his famous design pattern book The Ladies Amusement (1752), Robert Sayer was keen to emphasise the relationship between freedom, fancy and chinoiserie: « With Indian and Chinese subjects great Liberties may be taken, because Luxuriance of Fancy recommends their productions more than Propriety, for in them is often seen a Butterfly supporting an Elephant, or Things equally absurd ; yet from their gay Colouring and airy Disposition seldom fail to please » (Robert Sayer, The Ladies Amusement; or Whole Art of Japanning made Easy, 1752). This paper will investigate the diverse meanings of the term “fancy” associated, positively or negatively, with English artistic productions in the chinoiserie style: fancy as an expression of liberty and a manifesto for the playful nature of the repertoire of chinoiserie, but also fancy as the mark of a severe philosophical and aesthetic judgment passed by arbiters of taste on this exotic style.

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Alayrac-Fielding

Vanessa

Maître de conférences en civilisation britannique à l'Université Lille 3 Charles de Gaulle

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Références documentaires

ALAYRAC-FIELDING Vanessa (2015). La Chine dans l’imaginaire anglais des Lumières. Paris, Presses de l’université Paris-Sorbonne, 620 p.

ALAYRAC-FIELDING Vanessa (2011). Plaisirs exotiques et identité anglaise au XVIIIe siècle : du jeu frivole au jeu de pouvoir, in Françoise Buisson, Jane Hentgès, Christelle Lacassain-Lagoin, Michael Parsons (dirs.), Je(u), joie, jouissance/ Games and the self-joy, enjoyment and pleasure, Paris, Éditions L’Harmattan Rives-Cahier de l’Arc Atlantique, 4, 111-138.

ALAYRAC-FIELDING Vanessa (2010). China exposed, transposed and metamorphosed : consuming Chinese material culture and chinoiserie in 18th‑century England, Instituto Portuguès de Sinologia, Lisboa, Revista de Estudes Chineses, 6, 93‑115.

ALAYRAC-FIELDING Vanessa (2009). Le voyage en Chine ou les pièges de la représentation : “a puppet show preparing some grand coup de théâtre”, Représentations, revue électronique du CEMRA, Hors série 3, novembre 2009. http://w3.u-grenoble3.fr/representa...

ALAYRAC-FIELDING Vanessa (2009). Frailty, thy name is China : Women, Chinoiserie and the threat of low culture in 18th-century England, Women’s History Review, 4, vol. 18, sept 2009, 659-668.

SAYER, Robert (1752). The Ladies Amusement; or Whole Art of Japanning made Easy. London, pp. 3-4. [fac-similé Ceramic Books Company, Wales, 1966, 200 p.].

> Voir aussi la bibliographie à télécharger dans l'onglet "Documents".

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Le website dédié au colloque "Fancy-Fantaisie-Capriccio: Diversions and Distractions in the Eighteenth Century" (Toulouse
3-4 décembre 2015).