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David after David

Mark Ledbury

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  • 376 sidor
  • 2007
With essays by Valrie Bajou, Philippe Bordes, Thomas Crow, Michael Fried, Tom Gretton, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Stphane Gugan, Daniel Harkett, Godehard Janzing, Dorothy Johnson, Mehdi Korchane, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Issa Lampe, Mark Ledbury, Simon Lee, Heather McPherson, David OBrien, Satish Padiyar, Todd Porterfield, Susan L. Siegfried, and Helen Weston Jacques-Louis David (17481825), the most celebrated painter of his era, was appointed court painter to Napoleon in 1804 and exiled to Brussels in 1816. This important bookbased on the proceedings of an international symposiumexplores Davids grand projects of the Empire period and the often mysterious works produced in his last years as a political exile. David after David features twenty-one essays by leading art historians that discuss these later workswhich include innovative portraits as well as paintings and drawings that address the opposing themes of the antique and modernin the aesthetic, political, and social contexts of their production and reception. The book also draws upon recently discovered letters the artist wrote in exile and provides fascinating new perspectives into his life and art. Distributed for the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
  • Författare: Mark Ledbury
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9780300121513
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 376
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2007-11-01
  • Förlag: Yale University Press