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Kalaher, Emily Danielle 2016-03-02T19:45:08Z 2016-03-02T19:45:08Z 2015-12-10 2015-12 This thesis explores how Jean-Etienne Liotard’s 1783 painting, Still Life: Tea Set, functioned within its eighteenth-century context. Rather than considering the image as an academic exercise, depiction of the chinoiserie craze, or as evidence of the aging artist’s waning virtuosity, as other scholars have done, I argue that Still Life: Tea Set functioned as an active agent within its specific social matrix. Utilizing eighteenth-century sources as well as the work of contemporary scholars, this study closely examines the still life in relation to the phenomena of politeness and superficial self-fashioning, or the ancien régime of identity—a concept put forth by Dror Wahrman. When considered within the historically situated themes of eighteenth-century consumerism, the emergence of the Georgian middle-class, and polite society, it becomes clear that Still Life: Tea Set was an image created for consumption within a very specific cultural matrix, within which it was able to actively generate a range of flexible meanings for viewers. Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2016-03-02 without embargo terms The student, Emily Kalaher, accepted the attached license on 2015-12-09 at 15:31. The student, Emily Kalaher, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2015-12-09 at 15:56. This Thesis was approved for publication on 2015-12-10 at 14:52. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #8991 on 2016-03-02 at 12:53:03 Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-02T19:45:08Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 KALAHER-THESIS-2015.pdf: 15022411 bytes, checksum: 61439e61cd18ccfc0f4207eafe7171fd (MD5) Painterly Performance of Politeness.docx: 3131845 bytes, checksum: fa36c1efc68489c62037d81f59a9119d (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4210 bytes, checksum: 245dbac1f5bec464ddae5a37fd3bcc8b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-12-10 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/89085 en Copyright 2015 Emily D. Kalaher Jean-Etienne Liotard still life tea set identity self-fashioning eighteenth-century England Liotard surface ancien regime of identity polite politeness polish agency consumerism middling sort middle class Georgian le peintre turc tea porcelain blur sugar "A painterly performance of politeness: Jean-Étienne Liotard’s ""Still Life: Tea Set"" and identity in eighteenth-century England" text text Art & Design Art History University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.A.