The radical break with the past heralded by the French Revolution in 1789 has become one of the mythic narratives of our time. Yet in the drawn-out afterlife of the Revolution, and through subsequent periods of Empire, Restoration, and Republic, the question of what such a temporal transformation might involve found complex, often unresolved expression in visual and material culture.
This diverse collection of essays draws attention to the eclectic objects and forms of visuality that emerged in France from the beginning of the French Revolution through to the end of the July Monarchy in 1848. It offers a new account of the story of French art's modernity by exploring the work of genre painters and miniaturists, sign-painters and animal artists, landscapists, architects, and printmakers, as they worked out what it meant to be “post-revolutionary.”
Author(s): Iris Moon, Richard Taws
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 311
City: London
Cover page
Halftitle page
Title page
Copyright page
Contents
Illustrations
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Infinitely Small Things
Angle of Vision
“Post-Revolutionary” Time
Media Revolutions
Parts and Whole
Notes
1 Miniature Style, 1789–1815
Small Fashions
Miniature Aesthetics
Precarious Sympathies
Notes
2 Rupture, Interrupted: Rococo Recursions and Political Futures in Percier and Fontaine’s Napoleon Fan
Architects in Fashion
A Rococo Past
Printing Presents and Propaganda
Fashion Forward?
Notes
3 A Draughtsman’s Contract: Court and Country in the Work of Louis Lafitte
Notes
4 Jean-Baptiste Huet’s Lions and the Look of the Captive in Post-Revolutionary France
Notes
5 First as Farce, then as Tragedy: Art, Vaudeville, and Modern Painting after the French Revolution
Notes
6 Monsieur Crouton, The Shop Sign Painter: The Unexceptional Artist in Early Nineteenth-Century Satirical Print
Watteau’s Shop Sign and Hogarth’s Shop Sign Painter
The Changing Status of the Satirical Shop Sign Painter
The Return of Monsieur Crouton
Crouton on Stage
Notes
7 Medium as Museum: Marie-Victoire Jaquotot’s Porcelain Painting and Post-Revolutionary Fantasies of Preservation
Porcelain Copies and the Restoration Monarchy
Marie-Victoire Jaquotot, Creator of Inalterable Painting
The Intimate Museum
“The Sacrifice of Common Sense”?
Notes
8 The Cultural Politics of Fashion and the French Revolution of 1830
“Fashion is dead”
Fashion in Print as Political Critique
Satires of Women and Colonialism
Notes
9 A Storm is Coming: Georges Michel in the Wind
Political Currents
Transports
Atmospheric Biographies
Dead Men’s Souls
Notes
Index
Plates
