Painting and history during the French Restoration : abandoned by the past / Beth S. Wright.
Painting and history during the French Restoration : abandoned by the past / Beth S. Wright.
Painting and history during the French Restoration : abandoned by the past / Beth S. Wright.
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1997.
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N759.409034/1
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English
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xi, 269 p., 8 col. plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents
1. Imagining the Past in 1827: A Note on Methodology -- 2. "Everything Is Optical": The Revolution in Historical and the Dilemma of Historical Painting -- 3. "Precious Relics from the Shipwreck of Generations": The Morality of Local Color -- 4. Witnesses to Catastrophe: The Dramatization of History...
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1997.
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England
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c1997.
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Summary
In this interdisciplinary study, Beth S. Wright examines the profound impact that contemporary debates on history, the central focus of French intellectual and political activity in the first decades of the nineteenth century, had on painting. Analyzing the narrative strategies of historians such as Barante, Marchangy, Chateaubriand, and Thierry, W...
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Painting and history during the French Restoration : abandoned by the past / Beth S. Wright.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-258) and index.
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c1997.
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N759.409034/1
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74VMbaNmDqyl
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0521572037 (hardcover)
9780521572033 (hardcover)
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759.409034
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991000796189702626
