Emulation

David, Drouais, and Girodet in the Art of Revolutionary France; New Edition

Paperback, 372 pages

English language

Published June 20, 2006 by Yale University Press.

ISBN:
978-0-300-11739-4
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OCLC Number:
62307388

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4 stars (1 review)

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4 stars

Recounts the stories and most important artworks of some of the most important French Neoclassicists, examining their work through a biographical perspective. The first half of the book is more focused on David and Drouais, and the second spends a fair amount of pages on Girodet and how the former affected him. There’s also a chapter at the very end about Gericault, which I very much enjoyed.

I knocked off one star because of what I (and actual scholars, see James Smalls’s article “Making Trouble for Art History: The Queer Case of Girodet” for example) believe is an overly heteronormative judgement of some of the major works featured. The Sleep of Endymion is homoerotic at the same time as it is everything else Crow describes it as, for one, and these artists were much less rigidly heterosexual than Crow discusses here. However, this book is from 1995, and scholarship on …

Subjects

  • History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800
  • Painting & paintings
  • 18th Century Art
  • Art And Society
  • Art
  • Art & Art Instruction
  • France
  • European
  • History - General
  • Art / General