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“In Luxury After the Terror, Moon demonstrates the fascinating and subtle ways in which the decorative arts were shaped by the contradictory politics of the French Revolution. She measures this influence less in terms of iconography and the new emblems such as Phrygian bonnets and tricolour cockades that came to adorn many surfaces; rather, she reflects on the expressive limits and materiality of different genres of cultural production, from wallpaper and assignat banknotes (including a remarkable prototype stitched on silk), to lime-wood carving and hard-paste porcelain. Her analysis balances a meticulous attention to the physical properties and aesthetics of objects from across the 1790s with a refreshing willingness to speculate about how they articulated collective fantasies and anxieties.”

—Tom Stammers Apollo Magazine

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“The robust history of artisans provides new vantage points from which to understand the French Revolution. Moon encourages her readers to adopt a critical lens on ‘survival’: not only of artisans in a changing economy, but also of physical objects in a new world of collecting and museums.”

—Delanie J. Linden Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide

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“Esthetically pleasing, meticulously researched, and engagingly written, the range of topics Moon explores is impressive and sometimes daunting. . . . Challenging traditional scholarship, Moon introduces new perspectives on this fascinating period of French and European history.”

—Felicia B. Sturzer New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century

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“Luxury After the Terror brings a criticality, a poetics, and a politics to this material that is truly exciting to see. Offering a vital new reading of the place of the decorative arts in the wake of revolution and reorienting our understanding of the period toward a range of captivating and unfamiliar objects, this meticulously researched and brilliantly argued book is an exhilarating rethinking of the field.”

—Richard Taws,author of The Politics of the Provisional: Art and Ephemera in Revolutionary France

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