The artist and the state, 1777-1855 : the politics of universal history in British & French painting...
The artist and the state, 1777-1855 : the politics of universal history in British & French painting...
The artist and the state, 1777-1855 : the politics of universal history in British & French painting / Daniel R. Guernsey.
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Publisher
Aldershot : Ashgate, c2007.
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N759.40903/5
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Language
English
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Physical content
xvi, 253 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
1. Universal history and proletariat dissent in eighteenth-century England : James Barry's The progress of human knowledge and culture, 1777-84 -- 2. Degenerate civilization in France : Eugene Delacroix's library murals in the Palais Bourbon, 1838-47 -- 3. Universal history and the French left : Pau...
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Publisher
Aldershot : Ashgate, c2007.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
c2007.
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Access Conditions
State Reference Library copy: To be issued in Supervised Use Area.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
By considering the work of these important European artists together, he reveals that not only the rich artistic interaction that took place between England and France - as well as Germany - at this time, but also how the notion of 'universal history' was to become a major preoccupation in the work of these individual artists, each one participatin...
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The artist and the state, 1777-1855 : the politics of universal history in British & French painting / Daniel R. Guernsey.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N759.40903/5
Record Identifier
74VKzv4O6KWX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKzv4O6KWX
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ISBN
0754657205 (hbk.) :
9780754657200 (hbk.) :
DDC
759.409034
MMS ID
991023400949702626
