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Facing the public : portraiture in the aftermath of the French Revolution / Tony Halliday.
By: Halliday, Tony (Anthony)
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BookSeries: Barber Institute's critical perspectives in art history series: Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2000Description: viii, 229 p. : ill. ; 25 cm + pbk.ISBN: 0719056187.Subject(s): Portrait painting, French | Portrait painting -- 18th century -- France | Portrait painting -- 19th century -- France | France -- Biography -- PortraitsDDC classification: 757.0944
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 757.0944 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00072897 |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This work examines the effect of the French Revolution on portrait painting. Portraits were the most widely commissioned paintings in 18th-century France. But most portraits were produced for private consumptions, and were therefore seen as inferior to art designed for public exhibition. The Revolution endowed private values with an inprecedented significance, and the way people responded to portraits changed as a result.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-223) and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of figures (p. vi)
- Preface and acknowledgements (p. ix)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- 1 Portrait painting for the ancien regime (p. 5)
- 2 Portraits on exhibition: the Revolution (p. 26)
- 3 Artists and other heroes (p. 48)
- 4 Private life as public spectacle (p. 83)
- 5 The advent of the academic outsider (p. 123)
- 6 Private art in an age of dictatorship (p. 152)
- 7 Public authority in an age of dictatorship: portraits of Bonaparte as First Consul (p. 176)
- 8 The portraitist's career: redefining status (p. 189)
- References (p. 209)
- Index (p. 225)