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THE PERFECT FOIL
FRANCOIS-ANDRE VINCENT AND THE REVOLUTION IN FRENCH PAINTING |
| By: |
Elizabeth C. Mansfield |
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Hardback |
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£87.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0816675805 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780816675807 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
21 December, 2011 |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Description: |
The life and works of a profoundly influential painter of Revolutionary-era France, brought out of the shadow of his outsize contemporary, Jacques-Louis David |
| Synopsis: |
Art history is haunted by the foil: the dark star whose diminished luster sets off another's brilliance. Relegated to this role by modern historians of Revolutionary-era French art, Francois-Andre Vincent (1746-1816) is chiefly viewed in the reflection of his contemporary, Jacques-Louis David. The Perfect Foil frees Vincent from this distorting mirror. Offering a nuanced and historically accurate account of Vincent's life and work, Elizabeth C. Mansfield reveals the artist's profound influence on the visual culture of the French Revolution--and, paradoxically, on the art historical narrative that would consign him to obscurity.The Vincent of The Perfect Foil is an artist whose life and work responded to cultural conditions--religious difference, emotional bonds, institutional pressures--only now finding their way into art historical accounts of the period. A successful academician despite his status as a member of the Protestant minority, a leading reformer of arts institutions during the Revolution, the progenitor of French Romanticism, and the husband of one of the period's most celebrated women artists, Francois-Andre Vincent emerges in these pages as an embodiment of the ambivalences and contradictions of life in France in the wake of the Enlightenment.By giving us a detailed and faithful portrait of this artist poised at the turning point of history, Mansfield restores a critically important body of work to its rightful place in the story of French art and reorients Revolutionary-era French art history toward a broader, more inclusive understanding of the period. |
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74 b&w illustrations, 24 colour plates |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Minnesota Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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