Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France write by Amy Freund. This book was released on 2015-06-13. Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France challenges widely held assumptions about both the genre of portraiture and the political and cultural role of images in France at the beginning of the nineteenth century. After 1789, portraiture came to dominate French visual culture because it addressed the central challenge of the Revolution: how to turn subjects into citizens. Revolutionary portraits allowed sitters and artists to appropriate the means of representation, both aesthetic and political, and articulate new forms of selfhood and citizenship, often in astonishingly creative ways. The triumph of revolutionary portraiture also marks a turning point in the history of art, when seriousness of purpose and aesthetic ambition passed from the formulation of historical narratives to the depiction of contemporary individuals. This shift had major consequences for the course of modern art production and its engagement with the political and the contingent.
Facing the Public
Facing the Public - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Facing the Public write by Anthony Halliday. This book was released on 2000. Facing the Public available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work examines the effect of the French Revolution on portrait painting. Portraits were the most widely commissioned paintings in 18th-century France. But most portraits were produced for private consumptions, and were therefore seen as inferior to art designed for public exhibition. The Revolution endowed private values with an inprecedented significance, and the way people responded to portraits changed as a result.
The Politics of the Provisional
The Politics of the Provisional - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of the Provisional write by Richard Taws. This book was released on 2015-09-22. The Politics of the Provisional available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In revolutionary France the life of things could not be assured. War, shortage of materials, and frequent changes in political authority meant that few large-scale artworks or permanent monuments to the Revolution’s memory were completed. On the contrary, visual practice in revolutionary France was characterized by the production and circulation of a range of transitional, provisional, ephemeral, and half-made images and objects, from printed paper money, passports, and almanacs to temporary festival installations and relics of the demolished Bastille. Addressing this mass of images conventionally ignored in art history, The Politics of the Provisional contends that they were at the heart of debates on the nature of political authenticity and historical memory during the French Revolution. Thinking about material durability, this book suggests, was one of the key ways in which revolutionaries conceptualized duration, and it was crucial to how they imagined the Revolution’s transformative role in history. The Politics of the Provisional is the first book in the Art History Publication Initiative (AHPI), a collaborative grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Thanks to the AHPI grant, this book is available on a variety of popular e-book platforms.
Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France
Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France write by Amy Freund. This book was released on 2015-06-13. Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France challenges widely held assumptions about both the genre of portraiture and the political and cultural role of images in France at the beginning of the nineteenth century. After 1789, portraiture came to dominate French visual culture because it addressed the central challenge of the Revolution: how to turn subjects into citizens. Revolutionary portraits allowed sitters and artists to appropriate the means of representation, both aesthetic and political, and articulate new forms of selfhood and citizenship, often in astonishingly creative ways. The triumph of revolutionary portraiture also marks a turning point in the history of art, when seriousness of purpose and aesthetic ambition passed from the formulation of historical narratives to the depiction of contemporary individuals. This shift had major consequences for the course of modern art production and its engagement with the political and the contingent.
Politics and Portraits in the United States and France during the Age of Revolution
Politics and Portraits in the United States and France during the Age of Revolution - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Politics and Portraits in the United States and France during the Age of Revolution write by T. Lawrence Larkin. This book was released on 2019-02-26. Politics and Portraits in the United States and France during the Age of Revolution available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays explore the way portraits intersected with politics during the Revolutionary and Imperial Eras in The United States and France. The portraits examined in this book highlight the challenges artists faced in the conceptualization, concretization, and promotion of political identity in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Portrait scholars T. Lawrence Larkin, Brandon Brame Fortune, Philippe Bordes, Amy Freund, and Margaretta Lovell provide thematic introductions dedicated to separate trends in the fashioning of Revolutionary and Federal/Imperial identity including the challenges of representing a strong leader, republican assembly, free citizen, and the uncovering of overlooked people or patterns. These thematic introductions are followed by essays that offer case studies of artists negotiating the desires and interests of their prominent patrons including Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, George Washington, Napoleon Bonaparte, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, among others. These essays analyze how artists in the United States and France grappled with how abstract notions of individual liberty, delegated powers, and collective governance can be invested in drawn, painted, printed, or mapped likenesses of high-ranking individuals during the Age of Revolution.
