Main entry:

Boime, Albert.

Title & Author:

Art in an age of Bonapartism, 1800-1815 / Albert Boime.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Description:

xxvii, 706 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

A Social history of modern art ; v. 2

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 657-688) and index.
Introduction -- I. The adversaries. The Napoleonic era (1800-15) ; The iconography of Napoleon ; English art in the Napoleonic era ; France and Spain -- II. The downtrodden and their regeneration. Napoleon's invasion of Prussia and the rise of German romantic nationalism ; The political foundations of the German romantic pioneers and their patrons ; Patrons of the new movement ; Philipp Otto Runge ; Caspar David Friedrich ; Napoleon in Italy.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

In this second volume, Albert Boime continues his work on the social history of Western art in the Modern epoch. This volume offers a major critique and revisionist interpretation of Western European culture, history, and society from Napoleon's seizure of power to 1815. Boime argues that Napoleon manipulated the production of images, as well as information generally, in order to maintain his political hegemony. He examines the works of French painters such as Jacques-Louis David and Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, to illustrate how the art of the time helped to further the emperor's propagandistic goals. He also explores the work of contemporaneous English genre painters, Spain's Francisco de Goya, the German Romantics Philipp Otto Runge and Caspar David Friedrich, and the emergence of a national Italian art.

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Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0226063356 (alk. paper)
9780226063355 (alk. paper)
9780226063362
0226063364

Subject:

Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 Influence.
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821 Relations with Europeans.
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821
Napoléon I, empereur des Français, 1769-1821.
Art, European 19th century.
Romanticism in art.
Art and society Europe.
709.03.
Art européen 19e siècle.
Romantisme dans l'art.
Art et société Europe.
Art and society
Art, European
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Relations with Europeans
Beeldende kunsten.
Sociale geschiedenis.
Art européen.
Bonapartisme.
Révolution française (1789-1799)
Romantisme (Art)
Société
19e siècle.
Art, Modern 19th century Europe.
Romanticism in art Europe.
Europe
Visual arts History

Added entries:

Boime, Albert. Social history of modern art ; v. 2.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 91494
Call No.: ID PLS N6757.B56; ID:95-B553
Status: Available