Emulation : David, Drouais, and Girodet in the art of revolutionary France / Thomas Crow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crow, Thomas E., 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Painters--France.

Painters.

France.

Painting, Modern--17th century.

Painting, Modern.

Painting, Modern--18th century.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799--Art and the revolution.

History.

Physical Description:

378 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, 2006.

Summary:

This fascinating and elegant book tells the story of five painters at the center of events in Revolutionary France: Jacques Louis-David and his extraordinarily precocious pupils Drouais, Girodet, Gerard, and Gros. Written by a major art historian, it interprets in a new and original way the relationships between these men and the paintings they created.

"Crow combines excellent formal and stylistic analysis of particular paintings with close attention to the psychological complexities and political and social contexts of the artists' lives. He delves deeply into David's and his students' thematic choices, compositional strategies and personal relations in order to make his overarching political and aesthetic arguments.... He brings the reader and the viewer into the picture in new and often surprising ways". -- Lynn Hunt, The New Republic

Contents:

1 Family Affairs 5

2 Fatherland 31

3 The Wounded Warrior 47

4 The School of Athens 83

5 Rebel, Rebel 117

6 Martyrs 145

7 A Child Shall Lead Them 171

8 The Return of the Exile 189

9 Last Rites 217

10 Too Beautiful for a Man 247

Coda: Wounded Warrior Redux 279.

Notes:

Previous ed.: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-371) and index.

ISBN:

0300117396

OCLC:

62307388