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Zusatztext 'The Visual Culture of Violence After the French Revolution is the first to examine the French visual culture of violence from 1791 to c.1830. This book belongs to an important strain of work in the field that seeks to connect developments in academically-sanctioned salon painting to other areas of visual spectacle! ranging from waxworks to public executions! and to situate all of these forms in the context of the sweeping political! social! and technological transformations that marked this watershed period. It will be of interest primarily to art historians and historians of visual culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.' Laura Auricchio! New School! USA' In The Visual Culture of Violence After the French Revolution! Lela Graybill offers an illuminating account of how attitudes to spectatorship! subjectivity! and violence were realigned in post-revolutionary France. Drawing on a fascinating and unexpected array of images and objects - from lithographs to history paintings! broadsides to waxworks - Graybill demonstrates that! far from disappearing in the nineteenth century! the spectacle of violence was reconfigured to new ends in the Revolution's wake. Theoretically sophisticated and packed with subtle interpretations of key works! this timely book is essential reading for anyone interested in the relationship between visual culture and the construction of the modern self.' Richard Taws! University College London! UK Informationen zum Autor Lela Graybill is Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Utah, USA. Klappentext Shedding critical light on previously neglected aspects of art and visual culture of the post-Revolutionary period! this book demonstrates how violent spectacle at this moment was profoundly shaped by shifting social attitudes! contemporary political practices! and rapidly accelerated technological developments. Zusammenfassung Shedding critical light on previously neglected aspects of art and visual culture of the post-Revolutionary period, this book demonstrates how violent spectacle at this moment was profoundly shaped by shifting social attitudes, contemporary political practices, and rapidly accelerated technological developments. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The Guillotine in Perspective 2 The Limit Case: Philippe-Auguste Hennequin’s The Remorse of Orestes at the Salon of 1800 3 Technologies of Witness: Violent Spectacle and the Fualdès Affair 4 A Proximate Violence: Madame Tussaud’s Chamber of Horrors Conclusion Bibliography Index ...
