Landscape Painting in Revolutionary France
Subtitle: Liberty's Embrace
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9780415346863
Subjects: Landscape painting, french; Landscapes in art; National characteristics, french; Art and society
Description: "The French Revolution had a marked impact on the ways in which citizens saw the newly-liberated spaces in which they now lived. Painting, gardening, cinematic displays of landscape, travel guides, public festivals, tales of space flight and devil-abduction each shaped citizens' understanding of space. Through an exploration of landscape painting over some forty years, Steven Adams examines the work of artists, critics and contemporary observers who have largely escaped art historical attention to show the importance of landscape as a means of crystallising national identity in a period of unprecedented political and social change"--