The Portrait Bust and French Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century

In The Portrait Bust and French Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century, Ronit Milano probes the aesthetic and intellectual charge of a remarkably concise art form, and its role in the construction of modern identity, during a seismic moment in French history.

About the author

Dr. Ronit Milano is a faculty member in the Department of the Arts, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. She has published several articles on the French pre-Revolutionary portrait bust, and is currently writing a book on contemporary art installations in eighteenth-century sites.

Product details

• Authors: Ronit Milano
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.03.2015
• EAN: 9789004276246
• ISBN: 978-90-04-27624-6
• No. of pages: 242
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 244 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 511 g
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectua
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history