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Tradition and Desire Norman Bryson

Tradition and Desire By Norman Bryson

Tradition and Desire by Norman Bryson

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In this highly original book Norman Bryson applied 'structuralist' and 'post-structuralist' approaches to French Romantic Painting. He considers the work of David, Ingres and Delacroix as artists who found themselves within an artistic tradition that had nothing creative to offer them.

Tradition and Desire Summary

Tradition and Desire: From David to Delacroix by Norman Bryson

In this highly original book Norman Bryson applied 'structuralist' and 'post-structuralist' approaches to French Romantic Painting. He considers the work of David, Ingres and Delacroix as artists who found themselves within an artistic tradition that had nothing creative to offer them.

Tradition and Desire Reviews

'this is an important book which cuts into the fabric of nineteenth-century art historical studies What Bryson has to say demands and deserves serious attention and sustained consideration.' The Times Higher Education Supplement
'Bryson's own contribution may ultimately have the inestimable value of incitement in a field in which new methods can play a central and revitalising role.' Burlington Magazine
'Particularly impressive is the manner in which, comfortable with the language of the various interpretation theories (Bryson) renders even the technical problems of painting easily accessible to his interdisciplinary audience. Thus integrating contemporary critical theory with the particular demands of art history and criticism, Bryson not only argues persuasively for a new direction in that single discipline; he reaffirms the work of interpretation as the common ground of humanists in all disciplines and so doing, provides a stunning example of critical practice at its very best.' French Review

Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Tradition and its discontents; 2. David and the problem of inheritance; 3. Mortal sight: The Oath of the Horatii; 4. Visionary delays: Ingres in the atelier of David; 5. Tradition and desire; 6. Desire in the Bourbon library; Epilogue; Notes; Index.

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GOR013636812
9780521335621
0521335620
Tradition and Desire: From David to Delacroix by Norman Bryson
Norman Bryson
Cambridge Studies in French
Used - Like New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
1987-03-19
252
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The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

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