Title: Visualizing the Revolution : politics and the pictorial arts in late eighteenth-century France /
Authors: Reichardt, Rolf.; Kohle, Hubertus.
Publisher: Reaktion,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Art, French; Art Political aspects France History; France History Art and the revolution.; France Intellectual life
Abstract: The authors explore the complex, many-faceted visual culture of the French Revolution, which took place in a period characterised by the creation of a new visual language steeped in metaphor, symbol and allegory.
Contents: Introduction : on the threshold of a new era for the arts -- Staging the revolution -- Contemporary images of revolutionary change -- Scenes of the new political and cultural order -- Reorganizing the artistic sphere -- From aristocrat to new man -- Between terror and freedom -- Visualizing the revolution.