David after David
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Essays on the Later Work
Edited by Mark Ledbury
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With essays by Valérie Bajou, Philippe Bordes, Thomas Crow, Michael Fried, Tom Gretton, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Stéphane Guégan, Daniel Harkett, 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 L. Siegfried, and Helen Weston
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.
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.
Distributed for the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Mark Ledbury is associate director of the Research and Academic Program at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.
ISBN: 9780300121513
Publication Date: October 23, 2007
Publishing Partner: Distributed for the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Publication Date: October 23, 2007
Publishing Partner: Distributed for the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
376 pages, 6 1/2 x 9 1/2
135 b/w + 15 color illus.
135 b/w + 15 color illus.
