Facing the public : portraiture in the aftermath of the French Revolution / Anthony Halliday.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halliday, Tony (Anthony)

Series:

Barber Institute's critical perspectives in art history series

Barber Institute's critical perspectives in art history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Portrait painting, French.

Portrait painting--France--18th century.

Portrait painting.

France.

Portrait painting--France--19th century.

France--Biography--Portraits.

Genre:

Biographies.

Portraits.

Physical Description:

viii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Manchester University Press, 1999.

Summary:

Portraits were the most widely commissioned paintings in 18th-century France, but most portraits were produced for private consumption, and were therefore seen as inferior to art designed for public exhibition. The French Revolution endowed private values with an unprecedented significance, and the way people responded to portraits changed as a result. This is an area which has largely been ignored by art historians, who have concentrated on art associated with the public events of the Revolution. Seen from the perspective of portrait production, the history of art during the Revolution looks very different, and the significance of the Revolution for attitudes to art and artists in the 19th century and beyond becomes clearer.

Contents:

1 Portrait painting for the ancien regime 5

2 Portraits on exhibition: the Revolution 26

3 Artists and other heroes 48

4 Private life as public spectacle 83

5 The advent of the academic outsider 123

6 Private art in an age of dictatorship 152

7 Public authority in an age of dictatorship: portraits of Bonaparte as First Consul 176

8 The portraitist's career: redefining status 189.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0719056179

0719056187

OCLC:

59427610