Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France
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Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France

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Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France

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Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France challenges widely held assumptions about both the genre of portraiture and the political and cultural role of images in France at the beginning of the nineteenth century. After 1789, portraiture came to dominate French visual culture because it addressed the central challenge of the Revolution: how to turn subjects into citizens. Revolutionary portraits allowed sitters and artists to appropriate the means of representation, both aesthetic and political, and articulate new forms of selfhood and citizenship, often in astonishingly creative ways. The triumph of revolutionary portraiture also marks a turning point in the history of art, when seriousness of purpose and aesthetic ambition passed from the formulation of historical narratives to the depiction of contemporary individuals. This shift had major consequences for the course of modern art production and its engagement with the political and the contingent.

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Publisher
Penn State University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780271065694
Topic
Art
Subtopic
Art General

Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction
  7. Notes to Introduction
  8. Chapter 1: Selling Citizenship
  9. Notes to Chapter 1
  10. Chapter 2: The Legislative Body
  11. Notes to Chapter 2
  12. Chapter 3: Aux Armes, Citoyens!
  13. Notes to Chapter 3
  14. THE TERROR
  15. Chapter 4: The Citoyenne Tallien in Prison
  16. Notes to Chapter 4
  17. Chapter 5: The National Elysée
  18. Notes to Chapter 5
  19. Chapter 6: Duty and Happiness
  20. Notes to Chapter 6
  21. Conclusion
  22. Notes to Conclusion
  23. Notes
  24. Bibliography
  25. Index
  26. COVER Back