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What was history painting and what is it now? /
"The dominant visual language of European painting from the Renaissance to the nineteenth century, history paintings were formidable in their monumental scale, ambitious moral lessons, and intricate narratives. With the rise of modernist avant-gardes, the genre receded from the forefront of art...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2019.
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| Colección: | McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 Introduction: What Was History Painting and What Is It Now?; Part One. Human Figures and Human Viewers; 2 Figuring History at the End of the Renaissance: Notes on Agnolo Bronzino's Martyrdom of San Lorenzo; 3 A Rococo Aesthetic: History Painting and the Self's Embodiment; 4 History Painting Redistanced: From Benjamin West to David Wilkie; Part Two. History Painting in the Marketplace; 5. James Gillray's The Death of the Great Wolf and the Satiric Alternative to History Painting; 6 Historical Distance and Historic Doubts: Representing Napoleon in Exile;
- 7 Landscape and the Problem of History: Thomas Cole and Anglo-Atlantic Modernity; Part Three. History Painting after Modernism; 8 Myth, Melancholy, and History: Figural Dialectics and José Clemente Orozco's Epic of American Civilization; 9 History Painting after Conceptual Art; 10 What Is the History in Contemporary History Painting?; 11 Unwritten History: William Kentridge's Triumphs and Laments, Piazza Tevere, Rome, 2016; 12 Reimagining Global Modernity in the Age of Neo-Liberal Patronage: The History Paintings of Julie Mehretu;13 "Earth Death Pictures" as Contemporary History Painting; Bibliography; Contributors; Index.