From ‘unité de sujet’ to ‘unité d’intérêt’ : a century of word and image relations in France

On changes in the interpretation of well-known and traditional art-theoretical concepts during the late seventeenth and the eighteenth century that occurred when art theory changed hands from groups identifying with authority and the social status quo, to groups, who, for various reasons, felt excluded from the highest social circles, or only accepted when they shed their identities and beliefs.