Festivities such as those exalting the court of Louis XIV, the celebration of James II's London coronation, and the commemoration of the peace celebrations of 1749 at The Hague culminated in dazzling pyrotechnical displays. These were in turn reproduced as prints, paintings, and narrative descriptions. This unique book examines the propagandistic and rhetorical functions these printed records came to serve as vehicles of aesthetic, cultural, and emotional significance.
- ISBN10 0892364173
- ISBN13 9780892364176
- Publish Date 15 January 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 29 June 2009
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Getty Trust Publications
- Imprint Getty Research Institute,U.S.
- Edition Annotated edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 104
- Language English