A Companion to French Art

Natalie Adamson , Richard Taws 지음

Wiley-Blackwell 2026년 01월 05일 출간

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A comprehensive exploration of the evolutions, innovations, and legacies of French art from the late eighteenth-century to the present Charting the artistic eras from the transformative upheavals of the French Revolution to the dynamic global intersections of contemporary art in the 21st century, A Companion to French Art, 1789 to the Present provides an unparalleled analysis of French art. Edited by Richard Taws and Natalie Adamson, this authoritative volume offers new ways to consider the broad history of French art through critical attention to diverse objects, mediums, and practices that have shaped French art across centuries. Shedding new light on how art has interacted with and challenged established narratives, this volume features 30 essays by leading and emerging scholars, offering insights into a wide range of topics, including revolutionary iconography, modernist movements, colonial legacies, and contemporary art's engagement with global issues. Going beyond traditional frameworks, these chapters present new methodologies and innovative interpretations that reflect the evolving questions and challenges in art history. Addressing essential themes while expanding the boundaries of how French art is understood today, A Companion to French Art, 1789 to the Present: Offers comprehensive coverage of French art with a uniquely wide topical and temporal scope Examines diverse media and materials including painting, sculpture, photography, film, ceramics, industrial design, and fashion Engages with cutting-edge methodologies such as post-colonial critique and feminist theory Draws on in-depth archival research and previously unexplored materials for fresh insights Essential for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in French art history, A Companion to French Art, 1789 to the Present is also an invaluable resource for academics, museum professionals, and researchers worldwide

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List of Contributors ix Author Biographies xi Preface xix Acknowledgments xxi Introduction 1 Part 1 Post-Revolutionary Visions 19 1 The Smiling Face of Terror: Étienne Béricourt's French Revolution 21Richard Taws 2 After the Terror, Passing Scenes: Historical Experience in Robertson's Paris Phantasmagoria 39Jillian Lerner 3 Portraits and Pathologies: Clinical Pictures in Early Nineteenth-Century France 59Mechthild Fend 4 Costuming in History Painting 77Susan L. Siegfried 5 The Déjeuner Culture et récolte du cacao: Staging Fantasies of Regression in Nineteenth-Century French Porcelain 95Iris Moon 6 The Album des Deux Frontières: Lithography at the Nation's Limit 113Kelly Presutti Part 2 Materialising Modernity 129 7 The Ground of Painting :Modernism and Materiality in Gustave Courbet's L'atelier du peintre (1855) 131Veronica Peselmann 8 Designing with Iron in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France 149Amy F. Ogata 9 Camille Pissarro at the Crossroad of the Plantation 167Helene Engnes Birkeli 10 Gloomy Renoir 189Hollis Clayson 11 Playing Doctor with Toulouse-Lautrec: Male Friendship, Medicine, and Identity 205Mary Hunter 12 Monet's Series Reconsidered: Instantaneity in Standard Time 223André Dombrowski Part 3 Media, Publics, Subjects 241 13 In the Tradition: Grappling with the Past in the Long Nineteenth Century 243Neil McWilliam 14 Precious Works of Art: Rodin's Hanakos and Hanako's Rodins 261Juliet Bellow 15 L'Inhumaine (1924), the "Plastic" Arts, and Cinematic Specificity 281alcolm Turvey 16 The Public Turn in French Art during the 1930s 299Toby Norris 17 Surrealism: Revolution of t

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저자(글) Natalie Adamson

저자(글) Richard Taws