Painting the Prehistoric Body in Late Nineteenth-Century France

This book examines the sub-genre of prehistoric-themed paintings and how it captured the imagination of French academic painters from the 1880s to early 1900s. Its primary focus is the oeuvre of Fernand Cormon (1845-1924), one of the foremost history painters during the final quarter of the nineteenth century.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Prehistoric World in Fin-de-Siècle France
1. Précis of a Model Career, or Following in the Footsteps of Delacroix
2. Caïn, Evolutionary Science, and the Académie
3. Cormon, "Ethnographer" of the Prehistoric
4. Representing Human Development in the Muséum D'histoire Naturelle Murals
Conclusion: The Prehistoric in the World of Fin-de-Siècle France
Bibliography

About the author

Shalon Parker is associate professor of art history at Gonzaga University.

Summary

This book examines the sub-genre of prehistoric-themed paintings and how it captured the imagination of French academic painters from the 1880s to early 1900s. Its primary focus is the oeuvre of Fernand Cormon (1845–1924), one of the foremost history painters during the final quarter of the nineteenth century.

Product details

• Authors: Shalon Parker
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781611496703
• ISBN: 978-1-61149-670-3
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Europe, prehistory, ART / European, History of Art, Modernism, Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus, ART / History / Prehistoric