The Cambridge companion to Delacroix / edited by Beth S. Wright.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wright, Beth Segal.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Delacroix, Eugène, 1798-1863.

Delacroix, Eugène.

Delacroix, Eugène, 1798-1863--Influence.

Art, French--19th century.

Art, French.

Physical Description:

xvi, 240 pages, 11 pages of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm

Other Title:

Delacroix

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Summary:

The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix serves as an introduction to one of the most important and most complex artists of the nineteenth century. Providing an overview of his life and career, this volume offers essays by leading authorities on the artist's pictorial practice, the stylistic range over classicism and Romanticism, his writings (both private diary notations and published articles) and his impact on modern aesthetics, among other topics. Designed to serve as an essential resource for students of French nineteenth-century art history, cultural history, and literature, The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix also provides a chronology of the artist's life, set into its political and cultural contexts, as well as a list of suggested further readings in the topic areas.

Contents:

1 Painting Thoughts: An Introduction to Delacroix / Beth S. Wright 1

2 Delacroix in His Generation / Alan B. Spitzer 8

3 Delacroix and Romanticism / James H. Rubin 26

4 Eugene Delacroix and Popular Culture / Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer 48

5 Orients and Colonies: Delacroix's Algerian Harem / Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby 69

6 "A Science and an Art at Once": Delacroix's Pictorial Theory and Practice / Petra ten-Doesschate Chu 88

7 Delacroix's Dialogue with the French Classical Tradition / Dorothy Johnson 108

8 Delacroix and Modern Literature / Paul Joannides 130

9 Delacroix as Essayist: Writings on Art / Michele Hannoosh 154

10 Painting/Literature: The Impact of Delacroix on Aesthetic Theory, Art Criticism, and Poetics in Mid

Nineteenth-Century France / David Scott 170

Appendix Delacroix and La Liberte. Revue des Arts 187.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-232) and index.

ISBN:

0521650771

0521658896

OCLC:

43599221