A Social History of Modern Art, Volume 2: Art in an Age of Bonapartism, 1800-1815
(Book #3 in the A Social History of Modern Art Series)
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Book Overview
In this second volume, Albert Boime continues his work on the social history of Western art in the Modern epoch. This volume offers a major critique and revisionist interpretation of Western European culture, history, and society from Napoleon's seizure of power to 1815. Boime argues that Napoleon manipulated the production of images, as well as information generally, in order to maintain his political hegemony. He examines the works of French painters such as Jacques-Louis David and Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, to illustrate how the art of the time helped to further the emperor's propagandistic goals. He also explores the work of contemporaneous English genre painters, Spain's Francisco de Goya, the German Romantics Philipp Otto Runge and Caspar David Friedrich, and the emergence of a national Italian art. Heavily illustrated, this volume is an invaluable social history of modern art during the Napoleonic era. Stimulating and informative, this volume will become a valuable resource for faculty and undergraduates.--R. W. Liscombe, Choice
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226063364
ISBN13:9780226063362
Release Date:May 1993
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:734 Pages
Weight:2.75 lbs.
Dimensions:1.4" x 7.5" x 9.1"
Customer Reviews
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Thorough, easy to follow, overall a great book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
Al Boime is not only a terrific teacher, but also an extremely knowledgable and intelligent author. This book was an excellent complement to his Modern Art course at UCLA, as well as an excellent social history of art in the early 19th century for art historians, students, and the art enthusiast. ...
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