Napoleon and History Painting
Antoine-Jean Gros's La Bataille d'Eylau
Christopher Prendergast
Price: £60.00 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-817422-6
Publication date: 16 July 1998
Clarendon Press
242 pages, 7 colour and 48 black and white plates, 234x156 mm
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| Reviews |
| - 'Prendergast's skill lies in his highlighting the numerous thematic interpretations of Gros's painting' - Burlington Magazine, November 1999
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| Description | | - The first full-length art historical study of the painter Antoine-Jean Gros
- Examines history painting at a time of major political and cultural transition
- Combines historical detail with theoretical reflection
- Greatly enhances understanding of the art of this period
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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
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`Detailed and highly intelligent . . . this book is a significant addition to the literature on French art of the early nineteenth century.' Times Literary Supplement
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Readership: Art historians, historians of eighteenth and nineteenth-century France/Europe, literary historians
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Questions of detail
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Legitimization crisis
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The moment of history painting
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Painting war
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Art and the state
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Painting war II: La Bataille dEylau
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World history on horseback
Bibliography
Index
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| Authors, editors,
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Christopher Prendergast, Professor of Modern French Literature and Fellow, King's College, Cambridge
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