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oapen-20.500.12657-764182024-03-28T09:47:22Z Loss in French Romantic Art, Literature, and Politics Ribner, Jonathan P. Adam Mickiewicz Antoine-Jean Gros ancien régime art history Camille Corot Catholicism Eugène Delacroix empire exile France French Revolution Germaine de Staël government literature monarchy nineteenth century novels painting poetry religion secularization Théodore Chassériau trauma Victor Hugo violence world power An interdisciplinary examination of nineteenth-century French art pertaining to religion, exile, and the nation’s demise as a world power, this study concerns the consequences for visual culture of a series of national crises—from the assault on Catholicism and the flight of émigrés during the Revolution of 1789, to the collapse of the Empire and the dashing of hope raised by the Revolution of 1830. The central claim is that imaginative response to these politically charged experiences of loss constitutes a major shaping force in French Romantic art, and that pursuit of this theme in light of parallel developments in literature and political debate reveals a pattern of disenchantment transmuted into cultural capital. Focusing on imagery that spoke to loss through visual and verbal idioms particular to France in the aftermath of the Revolution and Empire, the book illuminates canonical works by major figures such as Eugène Delacroix, Théodore Chassériau, and Camille Corot, as well as long-forgotten images freighted with significance for nineteenth-century viewers. A study in national bereavement—an urgent theme in the present moment—the book provides a new lens through which to view the coincidence of imagination and strife at the heart of French Romanticism. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, French literature, French history, French politics, and religious studies. 2023-09-26T15:00:41Z 2023-09-26T15:00:41Z 2022 book ONIX_20230926_9781000461855_36 9781000461855 9781003184737 9781032027036 9781032027043 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76418 eng Studies in Curriculum Theory Series application/pdf n/a 9781000461855.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781003184737 10.4324/9781003184737 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 9781000461855 9781003184737 9781032027036 9781032027043 Routledge 278 open access
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An interdisciplinary examination of nineteenth-century French art pertaining to religion, exile, and the nation’s demise as a world power, this study concerns the consequences for visual culture of a series of national crises—from the assault on Catholicism and the flight of émigrés during the Revolution of 1789, to the collapse of the Empire and the dashing of hope raised by the Revolution of 1830. The central claim is that imaginative response to these politically charged experiences of loss constitutes a major shaping force in French Romantic art, and that pursuit of this theme in light of parallel developments in literature and political debate reveals a pattern of disenchantment transmuted into cultural capital. Focusing on imagery that spoke to loss through visual and verbal idioms particular to France in the aftermath of the Revolution and Empire, the book illuminates canonical works by major figures such as Eugène Delacroix, Théodore Chassériau, and Camille Corot, as well as long-forgotten images freighted with significance for nineteenth-century viewers. A study in national bereavement—an urgent theme in the present moment—the book provides a new lens through which to view the coincidence of imagination and strife at the heart of French Romanticism. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, French literature, French history, French politics, and religious studies.
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