Word and Image: French Painting of the Ancien Régime [Paperback]

Norman Bryson (Author)

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Paperback: 300 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; New edition edition (Jan 28 1983)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521276543
ISBN-13: 978-0521276542
Product Dimensions: 24.7 x 17.5 x 1.9 cm
Shipping Weight: 762 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,199,395 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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'Word and Image repays the effort it demands in heaped measure, because Norman Bryson writes with rare intellectual exhilaration. On page after page, he detonates fresh ideas carrying far wider repercussions than his immediate subject matter. He himself has a way of turning pedagogy into pyrotechnics, just as the painters whom he discusses here with such commitment - LeBrun, Watteau, Greuze, Chardin, David - transform moral enigmas into paint.' Marina Warner, The Sunday Times

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This 1982 book, now recognised as a classic, has done perhaps more than any other single work to change the face of art criticism in the twentieth century. Whereas previous books on French painting looked only at the history of painting as an evolution of artistic styles (baroque, rococo, neo-classical, and so on), Norman Bryson examines the evolution of narrative styles: the kinds of stories paintings tell, the ways they communicate their information, the different techniques of presenting the body as an instrument for incorporating textual messages. The procedure is applied to a number of painters: LeBrun, Watteau, Greuze, David and others, and the author demonstrates that the relation of formal and 'literary' elements was regarded by painters and critics in the eighteenth century as the primary issue to be confronted in the production of a painting.

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IN THE APSE of the Cathedral at Canterbury there is a window which can tell us a good deal about the controls operating on the image in the art of Christian Europe. Read the first page

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