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Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France / Amy Freund.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (312 p.) : 43 color/58 b&w illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9780271065694
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 704.942094409033 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One Selling Citizenship -- Two The Legislative Body -- Three Aux Armes, Citoyens -- Four The Citoyenne Tallien in Prison -- Five The National Elysée -- Six Duty and Happiness -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One Selling Citizenship -- Two The Legislative Body -- Three Aux Armes, Citoyens -- Four The Citoyenne Tallien in Prison -- Five The National Elysée -- Six Duty and Happiness -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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