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In this second volume, Albert Boime continues his work on the social history of Western art in the Modern epoch. This volume offers a major critique and revisionist interpretation of Western European culture, history, and society from Napoleon's seizure of power to 1815. Boime argues that Napoleon manipulated the production of images, as well as information generally, in order to maintain his political hegemony. He examines the works of French painters such as Jacques-Louis David and Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, to illustrate how the art of the time helped to further the emperor's propagandistic goals. He also explores the work of contemporaneous English genre painters, Spain's Francisco de Goya, the German Romantics Philipp Otto Runge and Caspar David Friedrich, and the emergence of a national Italian art.
Heavily illustrated, this volume is an invaluable social history of modern art during the Napoleonic era.
Stimulating and informative, this volume will become a valuable resource for faculty and undergraduates.--R. W. Liscombe, Choice
About the Author
Albert Boime is professor of art history at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Social History of Modern Art: Art in an Age of Bonapartism, 1800-1815, Vol. 2 FROM THE PUBLISHER
In this second volume, Albert Boime continues his work on the social history of Western art in the Modern epoch. This volume offers a major critique and revisionist interpretation of Western European culture, history, and society from Napoleon's seizure of power to 1815. Boime argues that Napoleon manipulated the production of images, as well as information generally, in order to maintain his political hegemony. He examines the works of French painters such as Jacques-Louis David and Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, to illustrate how the art of the time helped to further the emperor's propagandistic goals. He also explores the work of contemporaneous English genre painters, Spain's Francisco de Goya, the German Romantics Philipp Otto Runge and Caspar David Friedrich, and the emergence of a national Italian art. Heavily illustrated, this volume is an invaluable social history of modern art during the Napoleonic era.
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With this work Albert Boime begins a multivolume social history of Western art in the modern epoch, from the French Revolution to World War I. In Volume 1 Boime systematically incorporates mainstream painting and sculpture, the work of lesser known artists, and popular imagery into a wide field of cultural inquiry. The second of Boime's (art history, UCLA) projected five-volume set on the social history of Western art in the modern epoch. The present volume examines Western European culture, history, and society from Napoleon's seizure of power to 1815 and the works of French painters David, Ingres, Prud'hon, and Girodet; Spain's Goya; English genre painters; the German Romantics; and the emergence of a national Italian art. Contains some 300 b&w illustrations. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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