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Delacroix and His Forgotten World: The Origins of Romantic Painting
Margaret Macnamidhe
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Description for Delacroix and His Forgotten World: The Origins of Romantic Painting
Hardback. Presents a new way of thinking about French painting in the 1820s and beyond. Fresh insights into the life and work of a hugely important and popular artist. Num Pages: 208 pages, 63 colour integrated. BIC Classification: ACVC; AFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 292 x 244 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1432.
The image of Eugene Delacroix as an august artist with an august oeuvre was initially frozen into place by posthumous tributes and it has continued to the present. He was one of the finest yet least understood painters of the nineteenth century, the golden age of the French Romantic movement. He is remembered best for his masterpiece, La Liberte guidant le people, but few of his works have received the kind of constant, fascinated revisiting that has sealed the iconic status of Theodore Gericault's Le Radeau de la Meduse, for example. This book is one of the first to look ... Read more
The image of Eugene Delacroix as an august artist with an august oeuvre was initially frozen into place by posthumous tributes and it has continued to the present. He was one of the finest yet least understood painters of the nineteenth century, the golden age of the French Romantic movement. He is remembered best for his masterpiece, La Liberte guidant le people, but few of his works have received the kind of constant, fascinated revisiting that has sealed the iconic status of Theodore Gericault's Le Radeau de la Meduse, for example. This book is one of the first to look ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780769370
SKU
V9781780769370
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About Margaret Macnamidhe
Margaret MacNamidhe is an art historian, specialising in the paintings of Eugene Delacroix. She is Lecturer in Art History at the University of Chicago and Visiting Lecturer at Williams College, Massachusetts. She gained her Ph.D. from the History of Art department at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
Reviews for Delacroix and His Forgotten World: The Origins of Romantic Painting
'Few Irish art historians tackle important international subjects. Mac Namidhe shows that it is possible to do so - and to excel,' Dublin Review of Books;