David After David - Essays on the Later Work

Klappentext Jacques-Louis David (1748– 1825)! the most celebrated painter of his era! was appointed court painter to Napoleon in 1804 and exiled to Brussels in 1816. This important book– – based on the proceedings of an international symposium– – explores David' s grand projects of the Empire period and the often mysterious works produced in his last years as a political exile. "David after David" features twenty-one essays by leading art historians that discuss these later works– – which include innovative portraits as well as paintings and drawings that address the opposing themes of the antique and modern– – in the aesthetic! political! and social contexts of their production and reception. The book" "also draws upon recently discovered letters the artist wrote in exile and provides fascinating new perspectives into his life and art. Zusammenfassung Features essays by Valerie Bajou! Philippe Bordes! Thomas Crow! Michael Fried! Daniel Harkett! Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby! Stephane Guegan! Godehard Janzing! Dorothy Johnson! Mehdi Korchane! Ewa Lajer-Burcharth! Issa Lampe! Mark Ledbury! Simon Lee! Heather McPherson! David O'Brien! Satish Padiyar! Todd Porterfield! Susan Siegfried! and Helen Weston.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Ledbury, Mark (EDT) Ledbury, Ledbury Mark
• Assisted by: Mark Ledbury (Editor), Ledbury Mark (Editor)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.11.2007
• EAN: 9780300121513
• ISBN: 978-0-300-12151-3
• No. of pages: 376
• Dimensions: 254 mm x 178 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Clark Art Institute Series (YUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; ART / History / General, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, History of Art, Painting & paintings, Individual artists, art monographs, Paintings and painting, Art & Design Styles: Classicism, Neo-Classicism