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Chains : David, Canova, and the fall of the public hero in postrevolutionary France
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Chains : David, Canova, and the fall of the public hero in postrevolutionary France

Author: Satish Padiyar
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2007.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : English
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One of Jacques-Louis David's most ambitious and darkly enigmatic paintings, "Leonidas at the Pass of Thermopylae", hangs in the Louvre, largely ignored. Focusing on this painting, this work embarks on  Read more...

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Genre/Form: Bildband
Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Padiyar, Satish, 1964-
Chains.
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2007
(OCoLC)607843414
Named Person: Jacques Louis David; Immanuel / Kritik der ästhetischen Urteilskraft Kant; Jacques Louis David; Antonio Canova; Donatien Alphonse François{de Sade
Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Satish Padiyar
ISBN: 9780271029634 0271029633
OCLC Number: 71833315
Description: xii, 225 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Contents: Heroism after the French Revolution : David's Leonidas at Thermopylae --
Inheriting Greek Eros : Anacreontism and homosexual desire --
Kant and the postrevolutionary subject : the aesthetics of freedom --
Subject and surface : Canova and the reinvention of classical sculpture --
Sade/David, in chains.
Responsibility: Satish Padiyar.
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