Napoleon and History Painting: Antoine-Jean Gros's La Bataille d'Eylau [Paperback]

Christopher Prendergast (Author)

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Paperback: 238 pages
Publisher: Clarendon Press; Reprint edition (Sep 1 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0198174225
ISBN-13: 978-0198174226
Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.6 x 1.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 522 g

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`Prendergast's skill lies in his highlighting the numerous thematic interpretations of Gros's painting' Burlington Magazine, November 1999

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This study is an inquiry into the fortunes, in both theory and practice, of the idea of history painting during the Napoleonic period. Its main argument is that under Napoleon, French history painting, especially battle painting, encountered a series of questions as to its nature and function. These questions arose in part from the (often contradictory) demand of a propaganda-machine operating within a postrevolutionary crisis of political legitimation, but also from changes in artistic taste which both retained and re-directed an earlier notion of the civic responsibilities of the history painter. This is a resolutely interdisciplinary book: drawing on perspectives from political thought and history, military theory and practice and art history, which centres on the work of the painter, Antoine-Jean Gros, and his controversial painting, La Bataille d'Eylau. `Detailed and highly intelligent . . . this book is a significant addition to the literature on French art of the early nineteenth century.' Times Literary Supplement

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1.0 out of 5 stars An agonizing synedoche, Sep 30 2001

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This review is from: Napoleon and History Painting: Antoine-Jean Gros's LA Bataille D'Eylan (Hardcover)

This book is really awful to read.
There is first the author's inexplicable need to quote extensively in French thruout this book. I don't read French and fail to understand why the author writes in English and quotes extensively in another language. Then it struck me - he is a learned man, being educated in the humanities in English, French and presumably, Latin as well (says so in his background).
Then there is his use of words which do not even occur in any dictionary, thesaurus or great books on organised words that I consulted. I guess that he was making a synedochic point about words and grammar.
Finally, his analysis on the one famous painting about the battle of Eylau by JL Gros and that green clad Prussian soldier with the wild look in the corner of the painting. Ah, that I understand except that he got it wrong. That's a Russian soldier being depicted.
He'll need to brush up on his military history if he wants a career outside of art criticism.

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