Chains : David, Canova, and the fall of the public hero in postrevolutionary France /
Padiyar, Satish,1964-
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-217) and index.
Heroism after the French Revolution : David's Leonidas at Thermopylae -- Inheriting Greek Eros : Anacreontism and homosexual desire -- Kant and the postrevolutionary subject : the aesthetics of freedom -- Subject and surface : Canova and the reinvention of classical sculpture -- Sade/David, in chains.
David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825.
Art and society
Art, French