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Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France
Extremities Painting Empire in Post-Revolutionary France
Author: Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
In the decades following the French Revolution, four artists-Girodet, Gros, Géricault, and Delacroix-painted works in their Parisian studios that vividly expressed violent events and issues in faraway, colonial lands. This highly original book examines six of these paintings and argues that their disturbing, erotic depictions of slavery, re...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300088878
ISBN-10: 0300088876
Publication Date: 6/1/2002
Pages: 400
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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