TY - BOOK AU - Hyde, Melissa Lee AU - Ledbury, Mark ED - Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles, Calif.) TI - Rethinking Boucher T2 - Issues & debates, SN - 9780892368259 AV - ND553.B7 R4 82006 PY - 2006/// CY - Los Angeles : PB - Getty Research Institute KW - Boucher, François, N1 - "This volume, the fifteenth in the series Issues & debates, evolved from "Everything except the truth? Rethinking Boucher," a symposium organized by the Getty Research Institute and held at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, 23-25 January 2003"--Title page verso N2 - "Unequivocally a modern, Francois Boucher (1703-70) defined the French artistic avant-garde throughout his career. Yet the triumph of modernist aesthetics - with its focus on the self-critical, the autonomous, and the intellectually challenging - has long discouraged art historians and other viewers from taking Boucher's playful and alluring works seriously. Rethinking Boucher revisits the cultural meanings and reception of his diverse oeuvre, inviting us to revise the interpretive cliches by which we have sought to tame this artist and his epoch."--Jacket ER -