Emulation; David, Drouais, and Girodet in the Art of Revolutionary France; New Edition

by Thomas Crow

• ISBN13: 9780300117394
• ISBN10: 0300117396
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2006-06-20
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

This fascinating and elegantly written book puts the lives of artists at the center of innovative art history, tracing overlapping biographies within a closely-knit group of painters at the heart of events in Revolutionary France. Jacques-Louis David and his first cohort of precocious pupils, including the meteoric Jean-Germain Drouais and the immensely gifted but deeply troubled Anne-Louis Girodet, together sought to create an alternative, exalted life in art. Thomas Crow tells how personal histories and artistic endeavors intertwined within the larger arena in which an entire social order was first overturned and then restored. This revised edition includes a new afterword and incorporates the fruit of much recent research. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Thomas Crow is director of the Getty Research Institute. He is also the author of Painters and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Paris and Modern Art in the Common Culture, both published by Yale University Press.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Family Affairs	p. 5
Fatherland	p. 31
The Wounded Warrior	p. 47
The School of Athens	p. 83
Rebel, Rebel	p. 117
Martyrs	p. 145
A Child Shall Lead Them	p. 171
The Return of the Exile	p. 189
Last Rites	p. 217
Too Beautiful for a Man	p. 247
Coda: Wounded Warrior Redux	p. 279
Afterword	p. 300
Acknowledgements	p. 311
Notes	p. 313
Bibliography	p. 359
Index	p. 372
Photograph Credits	p. 379
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