In this long-anticipated book, Lajer-Burcharth looks more closely and originally at the very paint of masterpieces by Boucher, Chardin, and Fragonard than anyone may ever have done before. Unexpectedly extending the material turn to the medium we have come to take for granted, oil paint, Lajer-Burcharth convinces us that all great paintings contain deep meanings within their forms. If this book doesnt dispel the aura of frivolity called rococo around three great artists, nothing will.--Anne Higonnet, Barnard College, Columbia University, author of A Museum of Ones Own: Private Collecting, Public Gift sakriti opis