Napoleon and history painting : Antoine-Jean Gros's La Bataille d'Eylau

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Napoleon and history painting : Antoine-Jean Gros's La Bataille d'Eylau

Christopher Prendergast

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1997

  • hbk.
  • pbk.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [208]-215) and index

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hbk. ISBN 9780198174028

Description

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 .

Table of Contents

  • Questions of detail
  • legitimization crisis
  • the moment of history painting
  • painting war
  • art and the state.
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pbk. ISBN 9780198174226

Description

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. `Detailed and highly intelligent . . . this book is a significant addition to the literature on French art of the early nineteenth century.' Times Literary Supplement

Table of Contents

  • 1. Questions of detail
  • 2. Legitimization crisis
  • 3. The moment of history painting
  • 4. Painting war
  • 5. Art and the state
  • 6. Painting war II: La Bataille dEylau.
  • 7. World history on horseback
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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