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print culture in early modern france In this book, Carl Goldstein examines the print culture of seventeenth-century FrancethroughastudyofthecareerofAbrahamBosse,awell-knownprintmaker, bookillustrator,andauthorofbooksandpamphletsonavarietyoftechnicalsub- jects.Theconsummateprintprofessional,Bossepersistently exploredtheendless possibilitiesofprint–single-sheetprintscombiningtextandimage,bookillustra- tion, broadsides, placards, almanacs, theses, and pamphlets. Bosse had a profound understandingofprinttechnologyasafundamentalagentofchange.Unlikepre- viousstudies,whichhavelargelyfocusedontheprintedword,thisbookdemon- stratestheextenttowhichthecontributionsofanindividualprintmakerandthe visual image are fundamental to understanding the nature and development of earlymodernprintculture. CarlGoldsteinisaprofessorofartattheUniversityofNorthCarolinaatGreens- boro.HehasbeentherecipientoffellowshipsandgrantsfromtheKressFounda- tion, the Howard Foundation, and the Philosophical Society of America. He has published widely, including Visual Fact over Verbal Fiction: A Study of the Carracci andtheTheory,Criticism,andPracticeofPaintinginRenaissanceandBaroqueItalyand TeachingArt:AcademiesandSchoolsfromVasaritoAlbers. P rint Culture in Early Modern France Abraham Bosse and the Purposes of Print carl goldstein UniversityofNorthCarolina,Greensboro CAMBRIDGEUNIVERSITYPRESS Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown, Singapore,Sa˜oPaulo,Delhi,Tokyo,MexicoCity CambridgeUniversityPress 32AvenueoftheAmericas,NewYork,ny10013-2473,usa www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107012141 (cid:2)C CarlGoldstein2012 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2012 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationdata Goldstein,Carl. PrintcultureinearlymodernFrance:AbrahamBosseandthepurposesofprint/CarlGoldstein. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn978-1-107-01214-1(hardback) 1.Bosse,Abraham,1602–1676–Criticismandinterpretation. 2.Prints,French– 17thcentury. 3.Printing–France–History–17thcentury. 4.Artsandsociety–France– History–17thcentury. I.Title. ne650.b55g65 2011 769.92–dc23 2011026273 isbn978-1-107-01214-1Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyofurlsforexternal orthird-partyInternetWebsitesreferredtointhispublicationanddoesnotguaranteethatany contentonsuchWebsitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. This too is for Alicia Contents List of Illustrations (cid:2) xi Acknowledgments (cid:2) xv Introduction (cid:2) 1 chapter 1 A Printmaking Revolution (cid:2) 13 TheTreatiseonEtchingandEngraving (cid:2) 19 ANewBeginning (cid:2) 25 OriginalandCopy (cid:2) 28 CollectingPrints (cid:2) 31 TheOriginalityofanEtching-Engraving (cid:2) 32 PrintsasReproductions (cid:2) 36 OriginalForgeries (cid:2) 39 AnInternationalMarket (cid:2) 40 TheLegacy (cid:2) 41 chapter 2 Scenes of Everyday Life (cid:2) 43 TheCity (cid:2) 43 TheTrades (cid:2) 47 FashionPlates (cid:2) 51 chapter 3 Drama, Theater, and Prints (cid:2) 56 TheTheaterObserved (cid:2) 56 PrintedDrama (cid:2) 59 vii contents VersionsofFarce (cid:2) 65 TheBattleoftheSexes (cid:2) 68 WomenatLarge (cid:2) 72 TheSpokenWord (cid:2) 74 TheTheaterofEverydayLife (cid:2) 75 TheCarnivalesque (cid:2) 77 TheMoralityPlay (cid:2) 80 TheNeoclassicalTheater (cid:2) 82 chapter 4 Contingencies and Contradictions (cid:2) 85 Religion (cid:2) 85 War (cid:2) 90 TheBourgeois (cid:2) 92 Science,Not-Science (cid:2) 95 chapter 5 The Royal Portrait (cid:2) 106 TheKinginPrint (cid:2) 107 BreakingtheCode (cid:2) 111 chapter 6 Image and Text: Reading Single-Sheet Prints (cid:2) 118 ViewingtheImage,ReadingthePrint (cid:2) 118 WordandImage (cid:2) 124 chapter 7 Book Illustrations (cid:2) 126 TypesofPictures (cid:2) 127 PlaysandRomances (cid:2) 128 ANewSpirit (cid:2) 132 TheAntique (cid:2) 134 Science (cid:2) 136 TechnicalManuals (cid:2) 138 chapter 8 Books and Pamphlets (cid:2) 142 PaintingandTheoryBeforeBosse (cid:2) 142 Bosse’sTheoryofPainting (cid:2) 145 ReinventingtheWheel? (cid:2) 146 ArtasKnowledge (cid:2) 151 PamphletWars (cid:2) 153 Architecture (cid:2) 155 AcademicPublishing (cid:2) 157 viii contents Coda: Poussin, Scarron, Bosse, and the Economy of Transgression (cid:2) 159 Notes (cid:2) 165 Bibliography (cid:2) 183 Index (cid:2) 211 ix

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