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Chains: David, Canova, and the Fall of the Public Hero in Postrevolutionary France
Chains David Canova and the Fall of the Public Hero in Postrevolutionary France
Author: Satish Padiyar
One of Jacques-Louis David's most ambitious and darkly enigmatic paintings, Leonidas at the Pass of Thermopylae, hangs today in the Louvre, largely ignored. Focusing on this painting, Chains embarks on a discourse about the perception of the body, sexuality, and subjectivity in early nineteenth-century European art. — In additio...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780271029634
ISBN-10: 0271029633
Publication Date: 6/30/2007
Pages: 225
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Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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