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Napoleon and History Painting

Napoleon and History Painting

Antoine-Jean Gros's La Bataille d'Eylau

by Christopher Prendergast
Paperback
Publication Date: 16/07/1998

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This study is an inquiry into the fortunes, in both theory and practice, of the idea of history painting during the Napoleonic period. Its main argument is that under Napoleon, French history painting, especially battle painting, encountered a series of questions as to its nature and function. These questions arose in part from the (often contradictory) demand of a propaganda-machine operating within a postrevolutionary crisis of political legitimation, but also
from changes in artistic taste which both retained and re-directed an earlier notion of the civic responsibilities of the history painter. This is a resolutely interdisciplinary book: drawing on
perspectives from political thought and history, military theory and practice and art history, which centres on the work of the painter, Antoine-Jean Gros, and his controversial painting, La Bataille d'Eylau. `Detailed and highly intelligent . . . this book is a significant addition to the literature on French art of the early nineteenth century.' Times Literary Supplement
ISBN:
9780198174226
9780198174226
Category:
History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
16-07-1998
Language:
English
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
242
Dimensions (mm):
235x156x18mm
Weight:
0.53kg
Christopher Prendergast

Christopher Prendergast is Emeritus Professor of Modern French Literature at Cambridge University and a Fellow of Kings College, Cambridge. He directed the 2002 Penguin translation of A la recherche dutemps perdu and is the author of Mirages and Mad Beliefs: Proust the Skeptic published in 2013.

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