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9780520211964

The French Revolution As Blasphemy

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520211964

  • ISBN10:

    0520211960

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1999-03-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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Summary

This is a book about two paintings that were meant to turn the English against the French Revolution by showing its worst excesses--a world in which religious piety and racial, class, and gender hierarchies are turned upside down.

Table of Contents

Illustrations
xi(10)
Preface xxi
Introduction 1(6)
1 A Checkered Career
7(9)
2 The Journee of August 10, 1792
16(32)
3 A Modern Bacchanal: Plundering the King's Cellar at Paris
48(24)
4 The Furies of Hell: Celebrating over the Bodies of the Swiss Soldiers
72(33)
5 Thesis and Antithesis: An Antiheroic Art
105(23)
6 Counterrevolutionary Propaganda
128(14)
7 Religious Transcendence
142(13)
Appendix: Catalogue of Zoffany's Paintings of the French Revolution 155(4)
Notes 159(32)
Selected Bibliography 191(12)
Index 203

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