- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Yale University Press; 1 edition (Feb 28 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0300123469
- ISBN-13: 978-0300123463
- Product Dimensions: 30.5 x 22.9 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 2.1 Kg
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French art historian Bordes reappraises the later career of David, who achieved early fame with icons of classicism, such as The Death of Socrates (1787). To say David's politics provoked controversy in his lifetime and divisive opinion today puts things mildly: a radical member of the National Convention that condemned Louis XVI, David eventually muted his revolutionary credentials and "made every effort to be designated team captain" of Napoleon's art patronage. Whatever his motivations, David became the leading court painter. Bordes examines David's paintings and drawings of 1800-1825, to be exhibited this summer in Williamstown, Massachusetts. How the images are regarded today, and their past critical reputations, occupy Bordes' scholarly passages, while his biographical chapters are masterfully clear and informative. Technically the most superior images of Napoleon from life, David's paintings of the dictator are the main attraction here but will lead viewers on to appreciate not only David's metier--grand-manner, antiquity-themed scenes such as Leonidas at Thermopylae (1814)--but also his commercial portraits. A fabulous showcase of David's work and changeable renown. Gilbert Taylor
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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This beautifully illustrated book, originally published in 2005 in conjunction with a major traveling exhibition, is the first to examine the transformation of Jacques-Louis David’s work during the post-Revolutionary period (1800–1825). Each of the works––many of which were previously unknown or inaccessible––is reproduced in color and accompanied by detailed scholarly information. Drawing on many new documents and close analysis of the works featured in the book, Philippe Bordes offers a revisionist view of this deeply reactive artist and the creative output of his “second” career.
“A beautiful book and a significant contribution to our understanding of David’s place in art history.”—Art Times
"Bordes gives his readers the benefit of years spent looking at these paintings and drawings, as well as his encyclopedic knowledge . . . of the artistic, social and political histories of the period.”—Louise Govier, The Art Book
“[A] marvelously produced catalogue . . . meticulous and informative.”—David A. Bell, New Republic
This beautifully illustrated book, originally published in 2005 in conjunction with a major traveling exhibition, is the first to examine the transformation of Jacques-Louis David’s work during the post-Revolutionary period (1800–1825). Each of the works––many of which were previously unknown or inaccessible––is reproduced in color and accompanied by detailed scholarly information. Drawing on many new documents and close analysis of the works featured in the book, Philippe Bordes offers a revisionist view of this deeply reactive artist and the creative output of his “second” career.
“A beautiful book and a significant contribution to our understanding of David’s place in art history.”—Art Times
"Bordes gives his readers the benefit of years spent looking at these paintings and drawings, as well as his encyclopedic knowledge . . . of the artistic, social and political histories of the period.”—Louise Govier, The Art Book
“[A] marvelously produced catalogue . . . meticulous and informative.”—David A. Bell, New Republic
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Book well documented and well illustrated, Jan 2 2010
By Juan Ramãn Marrero Garcãa - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile (Hardcover)
It is the catalog of a recent exhibition of works of Jacques-Louis David, mostly portraits and drawings, the text presents many details, and illustrations of the portraits are superb.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Jacques-Louis Eavid: Empire to Exile, Feb 5 2010
By Alfred C. Mondello - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile (Hardcover)
What a great book, and what a man, survived three dinastes, painted like no other and inspired a nation to glory. Buy it and enjoy a wonderful story.
9 of 21 people found the following review helpful
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A FRENCH NEOCLASSIC MASTER, Feb 24 2006
By P. D. LIMA - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Jacques-Louis David: Empire to Exile (Hardcover)
This excellent book published on the occasion of an exhibitionpresents two remarkable personalities of this painter - a celebrated and controversial painter of his time and his connection with Napoleon Buonaparte.The second helped him in the way to the admiration , after a revolutionary republican beginning.The first cannot forget a notable draftman and painter,with followers such as Gros , Ingres,Thévenin,...
Even in the exile,his portraits are precious.Connecting or not
one part of his life as official painter of Napoleon, forgetting
or not his revolutionary starting , David remains ,as Stendhal
defended , the greatest painter of 18th century.
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