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The Perfect Foil: Francois-Andre Vincent and the Revolution in French Painting (Hardback)
Elizabeth C. Mansfield (author)- We can order this
The Vincent of The Perfect Foil is an artist whose life and work responded to cultural conditions-religious difference, emotional bonds, institutional pressures-only now finding their way into art historical accounts of the period. A successful academician despite his status as a member of the Protestant minority, a leading reformer of arts institutions during the Revolution, the progenitor of French Romanticism, and the husband of one of the period\u2019s most celebrated women artists, Fran\u00e7ois-Andr\u00e9 Vincent emerges in these pages as an embodiment of the ambivalences and contradictions of life in France in the wake of the Enlightenment.
By giving us a detailed and faithful portrait of this artist poised at the turning point of history, Mansfield restores a critically important body of work to its rightful place in the story of French art and reorients Revolutionary-era French art history toward a broader, more inclusive understanding of the period.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9780816675807
Number of pages: 320
Weight: 885 g
Dimensions: 254 x 178 x 25 mm
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"Elizabeth Mansfield's The Perfect Foil is a remarkable piece of scholarship that both transcends and transforms the genre of the art historical monograph. It is a sophisticated work that expands the way we conceive of how the visual arts and politics interacted during the French Revolution. Mansfield's provocative and methodological surefootedness will make readers aware of the contingencies that inform their own thinking." -Julie Anne Plax, author of Watteau and the Cultural Politics of Eighteenth Century France
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