The Triumph of Pleasure : Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle, Paperback / softback Book

The Triumph of Pleasure : Louis XIV and the Politics of Spectacle Paperback / softback

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Prominent components of Louis XIV's propaganda, the arts of spectacle also became sources of a potent resistance to the monarchy in late seventeenth-century France.

With a particular focus on the court ballet, comedy-ballet, opera, and opera-ballet, Georgia J.

Cowart tells the long-neglected story of how the festive arts deployed an intricate network of subversive satire to undermine the rhetoric of sovereign authority.

Exploring these arts from the perspective of spectacle as it emerged from the court into the Parisian public sphere, Cowart ultimately situates the ballet and related genres as the missing link between an imagery of propaganda and an imagery of political protest.

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