Time, media, and visuality in post-revolutionary France / editors Iris Moon, Richard Taws.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moon, Iris, editor.

Taws, Richard, 1977- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.

Art.

France--History--Revolution, 1789-1799.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] Bloomsbury Academic USA, 2019.

Summary:

"The radical break with the past heralded by the French Revolution in 1789 has become one of the mythic narratives of our time. Yet in the drawn-out afterlife of the Revolution, and through subsequent periods of Empire, Restoration, and Republic, the question of what such a temporal transformation might involve found complex, often unresolved expression in visual and material culture. This diverse collection of essays draws attention to the multiple points of view and refracted forms of visuality that emerged in France from the beginning of the French Revolution through to the end of the July Monarchy in 1848. It offers a new account of the story of French art's modernity by exploring the work of genre painters and miniaturists, sign-painters and animal artists, landscapists, architects, and restorers, as they worked out what it meant to be ?post-revolutionary.?."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. (Iris Moon, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA and Richard Taws, University College London, UK)

1.Miniature style 1789.1815 / (Jann Matlock, University College London, UK)

2. Rupture, interrupted: Rococo recursions and political futures in Percier and Fontaine's Napoleon fan / (Iris Moon, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA)

3. A draughtsman's contract: court and country in the work of Louis Lafitte / (Stephen Bann, University of Bristol, UK)

4. Jean-Baptiste Huet's lions and the look of the captive in post-revolutionary France / (Katie Hornstein, Dartmouth College, USA)

5. First as farce, then as tragedy: art, vaudeville and modern painting after the French Revolution / (Steven Adams, University of Hertfordshire, UK)

6. Monsieur Crouton, the shop sign painter: the unexceptional artist in early nineteenth-century satirical print / (Kathryn Desplanque, University of North Carolina, USA)

7. Medium as museum: Marie-Victoire Jacquotot's Porcelain painting and post-revolutionary fantasies of preservation / (Daniel Harkett, Colby College, USA)

8. The cultural politics of fashion and the French Revolution of 1830 / (Susan L. Siegfried, University of Michigan, USA)

9. A storm is coming: Georges Michel in the wind / (Richard Taws, University College London, UK).

ISBN:

9781501348426

1501348426

9781501348402

150134840X

9781501348419

1501348418

OCLC:

1256238761