Cambridge Companion to Delacroix

Klappentext Provides an overview of Delacroix's life and career through essays by leading authorities. Zusammenfassung This Companion provides an overview of Delacroix's life and career! offering essays by leading authorities on the artist's pictorial practice! his stylistic range over Classicism and Romanticism! his writings - both private diary notations and published articles - and his impact on modern aesthetics! among other topics. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Painting thoughts: an introduction to Delacroix Beth S. Wright; 2. Delacroix in his generation Alan B. Spitzer; 3. Delacroix and romanticism James H. Rubin; 4. Eugène Delacroix and popular culture Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer; 5. Origins and colonies: Delacroix's Algerian Harem Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby; 6. 'A Science and an Art at Once': Delacroix's pictorial theory and practice Petra Ten-Doesschate Chu; 7. Delacroix's dialogue with the French classical tradition Dorothy Johnson; 8. Delacroix and modern literature Paul Joannides; 9. Delacroix as Essayist: writings on art Michele Hannoosh; 10. Painting/literature: the impact of Delacroix on aesthetic theory, art criticism, and poetics in mid-nineteenth-century France David Scott.

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• Authors: Beth S. Wright, Beth S. (University of Texas Wright
• Assisted by: Beth S. Wright (Editor), Beth S. (University of Texas Wright (Editor), Beth Segal Wright (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.02.2001
• EAN: 9780521650779
• ISBN: 978-0-521-65077-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Cambridge Companions to the Hi; Cambridge Companions to the History of Art; Cambridge Companions to the Hi
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art