The deaths of Henri Regnault / Marc Gotlieb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gotlieb, Marc, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Regnault, Henri, 1843-1871.

Regnault, Henri.

Painters--France--Biography.

Painters.

France.

Local Subjects:

Regnault, Henri, 1843-1871.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xiv, 298 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, [2016]

Summary:

This is the first book in English on Henri Regnault (1843 71), a forgotten star of the European fin-de-siecle. A brilliant maverick who once seemed to hold the future of French painting in his hands, Regnault enjoyed a meteoric rise that was cut short when he died at the age of twenty-seven in the Franco-Prussian War. The story of his glamorous career and patriotic death colored French commemorative culture for nearly forty years until his memory was swept away by the vast losses of World War I. In The Deaths of Henri Regnault, Marc Gotlieb reintroduces this important artist while offering a new perspective on the ultimate decline of nineteenth-century salon painting. Gotlieb traces Regnault s trajectory after he won the prestigious Grand Prix de Rome, a fellowship that provided four years of study in Italy. Arriving in Rome, however, Regnault suffered a profound crisis of originality that led him to flee the city in favor of Spain and Morocco. But the crisis also proved productive: from Rome, Madrid, Tangier, and Paris, Regnault enthralled audiences with a bold suite of strange, seductive, and violent Orientalist paintings inspired by his exotic journey images that, Gotlieb argues, arose precisely from the crisis that had overtaken Regnault and that in key respects was shared by his more avant-garde counterparts. Both an in-depth look at Regnault s violent art and a vibrant essay on historical memory, The Deaths of Henri Regnault lays bare a creative legend who helped shape the collective experience of a generation.

Contents:

Introduction : January 9, 1871

Escape from the Eternal City

The Orientalist sublime

Art and desire

How to paint blood

Buzenval

Painter to legend

Canonicity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226276045

022627604X

OCLC:

919341743

Publisher Number:

99974491288