A Playful Aesthetic: Reinterpreting Rococo visual culture by studying the serious pursuits of its themes, forms and processes of interactive engagement

我的目的是对娱乐在十八世纪欧洲视觉文化中的作用有一个新的理解。这将是第一次将洛可可艺术、建筑和园林设计的多样化形式与当时的美学理论重新联系起来的全面研究。该项目将对西方艺术中的形式和象征的发挥提供独到的批评观点。它还将提供一种恢复接受过程的创新模式，以表明视觉体验如何有助于文化生产。

My aim is to produce a new understanding of the role of amusement within the visual culture of eighteenth-century Europe. This will be the first comprehensive study to reconnect the diverting forms of Rococo art, architecture and garden design with the aesthetic theories of the period. The project will provide original critical perspectives on the play of forms and emblems in western art. It will also offer an innovative model for recovering processes of reception to indicate how visual experiences contribute to the production of culture.