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David to Delacroix: The Rise of Romantic Mythology (Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History) - Hardcover
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In this beautifully illustrated study of intellectual and art history, Dorothy Johnson explores the representation of classical myths by renowned French artists in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, demonstrating the extraordinary influence of the natural sciences and psychology on artistic depiction of myth. Highlighting the work of major painters such as David, Girodet, Gerard, Ingres, and Delacroix and sculptors such as Houdon and Pajou, David to Delacroix reveals how these artists offered innovative reinterpretations of myth while incorporating contemporaneous and revolutionary discoveries in the disciplines of anatomy, biology, physiology, psychology, and medicine. The interplay among these disciplines, Johnson argues, led to a reexamination by visual artists of the historical and intellectual structures of myth, its social and psychological dimensions, and its construction as a vital means of understanding the self and the individual's role in society. This confluence is studied in depth for the first time here, and each chapter includes rich examples chosen from the vast number of mythological representations of the period. While focused on mythical subjects, French Romantic artists, Johnson argues, were creating increasingly modern modes of interpreting and meditating on culture and the human condition. |In this beautifully illustrated study of intellectual and art history, Johnson explores the representation of classical myths by renowned French artists in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, demonstrating the extraordinary influence of the natural sciences and psychology on artistic depiction of myth.
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Dorothy Johnson is Roy J. Carver Professor of Art History at the University of Iowa.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Content Description. In David to Delacroix: The Rise of Romantic Mythology, art historian Dorothy Johnson examines the transformation of classical mythology in French art from the late eighteenth through the early nineteenth century. Focusing on major artists including Jacques-Louis David, Anne-Louis Girodet, François Gérard, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, and Eugène Delacroix, Johnson explores how changing ideas in anatomy, biology, physiology, psychology, medicine, archaeology, and intellectual history shaped new representations of myth and the human body. Richly illustrated and interdisciplinary in approach, the book places French Neoclassical and Romantic art within the broader intellectual culture of the period. Published as part of the Bettie Allison Rand Lectures in Art History series, the volume was named a 2011 Choice Outstanding Academic Title. Includes color and black-and-white illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Condition Description: Very Good / Very Good Dust Jacket. First edition, first printing (stated First edition, 1 in the number line).Clean, firmly bound hardcover with exceptionally clean, bright interior pages. No writing, highlighting, underlining, or ownership markings. Boards and spine are very well preserved. Original illustrated dust jacket remains bright and attractive, with light shelf and storage wear, including minor rubbing and light wear/bumping at edges, corners, and spine extremities. Overall, a particularly clean, well-preserved copy, with most evidence of wear confined to the dust jacket. Actual copy shown in photographs. Seller Inventory # CEBP - 024
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