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Zusatztext 'Dorsch's book does a great deal to shed light on the complexity of late-nineteenth-century French sculpture and its contexts! deepening the ways in which the significance of sculptors such as Mercié and Falguière should be understood.' David Getsy! School of the Art Institute of Chicago! USA Informationen zum Autor Michael Dorsch is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, USA. Klappentext French Sculpture Following the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-80 investigates the role played by the trope of the 'strong woman, fallen man' in re-establishing morale among the French people following the Franco-Prussian War. Through in-depth study of selected works, Michael Dorsch explores how sculptors presented this recent history of defeat in commemorative monuments that increasingly dominated public space across France during the final decades of the nineteenth century. Zusammenfassung Investigates the role played by the trope of the 'strong woman, fallen man' in re-establishing morale among the French people following the Franco-Prussian War. This book probes the aesthetic discourse of the period concerning the merits of traditional allegorical sculpture versus new-fangled realist sculpture in depicting modern life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; The hermaphroditic power of Jean-Alexandre-Joseph Falguière's Allegory of Resistance; The Emperor's furrowed brow and the prostitute's imperious gaze: social degeneracy writ large; Antonin Mercié's Gloria Victis and the mollification of the French psyche; The soldier's bandaged foot: state sponsorship of the image of defeat in the 1879 concours for the monument to La Défense de Paris; Auguste Rodin's The Age of Bronze: commemoration stripped bare; Conclusion; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
