Emulation : making artists for revolutionary France / Thomas Crow.
By: Crow, Thomas E.
Material type: BookPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, c1995Description: 364 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.ISBN: 0300060939 .Subject(s): David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825 -- Influence | Neoclassicism (Art) -- France | Art, French | Allegories | Men in art | Artists -- France -- Psychology | France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Art and the revolutionDDC classification: 759.4Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 759.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00005880 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This book puts the life of the artist at the centre of innovative art history, narrating a biography of five painters at the centre of events in Revolutionary France: Jacques Louis-David and his extraordinarily precocious pupils Drouais, Girodet, Gerard, and Gros. Their shared ambition was to build an alternative, exalted life in art, one committed to rigorous classical erudition while suffused with the emotional depth of familial bonds. In this experiment of enlightened teaching, the roles of master and pupil were frequently reversed. Thomas Crow tells how the personal histories and aesthetic choices of these artists were played out within the larger arena in which a whole social order was being overturned, a king embodying all patriarchal authority was put to death, and a republic of equal male brotherhood was proclaimed.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [346]-357) and indexes..