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Emulation : making artists for revolutionary France

Author
Crow, Thomas
Document type
Livre
Language
English
Source
ill. (some col.); bibliogr.; index ; 364 p. ; 1995
ISBN
0-300-06093-9
Publisher
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT (usa)
Publication country
United States
Abstract (en)
Crow narrates a biography of five painters at the heart of events in Revolutionary France: Jacques-Louis David and his pupils Drouais, Girodet, Gérard and Gros. Their shared ambition was to build an alternative, exalted life in art, one committed to rigorous classical erudition while suffused with the emotional depth of familial bonds. In this experiment of enlightened teaching, the roles of master and pupil were frequently reversed. Crow tells how the personal histories and aesthetic choices of these artists were played out within the larger arena in which a whole social order was being overturned, a king embodying all patriarchal authority was put to death, and a republic of equal male brotherhood was proclaimed. The Revolutionary ideal of male fraternity was just one of many shifts in the philosophical underpinnings of the visual arts, the sum of which moved painting more and more into an exclusively masculine frame of reference. In their paintings these artists found themselves compelled to define the entire spectrum of desirable human qualities as properties of the male sex alone. This process both reinforced and complicated the bonds of emotion and mutual identification between them.
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DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19950701-00317456

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