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NAPOLEON AND HISTORY PAINTING
ANTOINE-JEAN GROS'S LA BATAILLE D'EYLAU |
| By: |
Christopher Prendergast |
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Paperback |
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£167.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198174225 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198174226 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
16 July, 1998 |
| Pages: |
242 |
| Description: |
This is the first full-length study of Antoine-Jean Gros from an art-historical point of view, but it is more than a monograph. It uses the example of Gros to examine a more general crisis of history painting at a time (the Napoleonic period) of major political and cultural transition. Christopher Prendergast is a distinguished scholar of international standing. `Detailed and highly intelligent . . . this book is a significant addition to the literature on French art of the early nineteenth century.' Times Literary Supplement |
| Synopsis: |
This study is an inquiry into the fortunes, in both theory and practice, of the idea of history painting during the Napoleonic period. Its main argument is that under Napoleon, French history painting, especially battle painting, encountered a series of questions as to its nature and function. These questions arose in part from the (often contradictory) demand of a propaganda-machine operating within a postrevolutionary crisis of political legitimation, but also from changes in artistic taste which both retained and re-directed an earlier notion of the civic responsibilities of the history painter. This is a resolutely interdisciplinary book: drawing on perspectives from political thought and history, military theory and practice and art history, which centres on the work of the painter, Antoine-Jean Gros, and his controversial painting, La Bataille d'Eylau. 'Detailed and highly intelligent ...this book is a significant addition to the literature on French art of the early nineteenth century.' Times Literary Supplement |
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7 colour and 48 black and white plates |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Clarendon Press |
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