Vendeur : Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, Etats-Unis
Etat : VG+ appears unread. Glued illustrated wraps. 169 pp., Appx. 80 color plates. Text is in French. Translation of rear cover text: "A subject of philosophical speculation during the Enlightenment, exile entered the lives of contemporaries during the Revolution. It imposed itself as a choice, a necessity, a duty, and an act of violence in the face of the irreversible overthrow of the social order. Beyond royalist emigration, one of the most serious threats that republicans had to manage, the theme of exile profoundly marked the collective imagination and thus became one of the major themes through which modernity was achieved in the arts. While the Revolution brought artists into direct contact with political action, they nonetheless continued to question the ancient past in their work to illuminate the present, in order to offer a meditation on the meaning of History. Through a corpus of canonical works of French art (David, Vincent, Peyron, Gérard, Guérin, Danloux, etc.), this book examines the reception of figures of exile from the reign of Louis XVI to the Consulate, from the From Marmontel's Belisarius, an idol of progressive men from 1767 onwards, to Guérin's The Return of Marcus Sextus, one of the greatest political paintings of the late 19th century. Through this theme emerges a history of the missteps of the "grand genre" during the Revolution." The catalogue lists 27 works, and has a copious Bibliography. N° de réf. du vendeur 214382
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