Visualizing the Revolution
Subtitle: Politics and Pictorial Arts in Late Eighteenth-Century France (Reaktion Books - Picturing History)
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: November 15, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781861893123
Subjects: Classicism; Revolutions & coups; c 1700 to c 1800; Art; Art & Art Instruction; France; European; Art / History / European
Description: 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.