Napoleon and history painting : Antoine-Jean Gros's La Bataille d'Eylau / Christopher Prendergast.

Main entry:

Prendergast, Christopher.

Title & Author:

Napoleon and history painting : Antoine-Jean Gros's La Bataille d'Eylau / Christopher Prendergast.

Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.

Description:

xiii, 223 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-215) and index.
1. Questions of Detail -- 2. Legitimation Crisis -- 3. The Moment of History Painting -- 4. Painting War (I) -- 5. Art and the State -- 6. Painting War (II): La Bataille d'Eylau -- 7. World History on Horseback.

Summary:

Christopher Prendergast's study is an inquiry into the fortunes, in both theory and practice, of the idea of history painting during the Napoleonic period. His main argument is that under Napoleon, French history painting, especially battle painting, encountered a series of questions as to its nature and function. These questions arose in part from the (often contradictory) demands of a propaanda - machine operating within a post-revolutionary crisis of political legitimation, but also from changes in artistic taste which both retained and re-directed an earlier notion of the civic responsibilities of the history painter.
This is a resolutely interdisciplinary book: drawing on perspectives from political thought and history, military theory and practice, and art history, it centres on the work of the painter, Antoine-Jean Gros, and his controversial painting, La Bataille d'Eylau.

Resources:
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Publisher description

ISBN:

0198174020 (hc ; acid-free paper)
9780198174028 (hc ; acid-free paper)
0198174225 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
9780198174226 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Gros, Antoine-Jean, Baron, 1771-1835. Battle of Eylau.
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 Portraits.
Gros, Antoine-Jean, Baron, 1771-1835 Criticism and interpretation.
Napoléon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821.
Gros, Antoine Jean, baron, 1771-1835.
Gros, Antoine-Jean, Baron, 1771-1835
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Gros, Antoine-Jean 1771-1835
Gros, Antoine-Jean 1771-1835 Napoleon auf dem Schlachtfeld von Eylau
Napoléon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 Portraits.
Gros, Antoine Jean, baron, 1771-1835 Criticism and interpretation.
Napoléon Ier (empereur des Français ; 1769-1821) Portraits.
Gros, Antoine-Jean, (1771-1835) Critique et interprétation.
Gros, Antoine-Jean.
Gros, Antoine-Jean. Napoleon auf dem Schlachtfeld von Eylau.
Battle of Eylau (Gros, Antoine-Jean, Baron)
History in art.
Battles in art.
Apotheosis in art.
Histoire dans l'art.
Batailles dans l'art.
Apothéose dans l'art.
histories (visual works)
Historienmalerei
Historieschilderkunst.
Veldslagen.
La Bataille d'Eylau (Gros)
Frankreich
Geschichte 1808

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Portraits

Holdings:

Location: Library main 191475
Call No.: ID ND553.G85.A63; ID:97-B2415
Status: Available

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