Jacques-Louis David's 'Marat'
Jacques-Louis David's 'Marat'
Helen Weston
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This book focuses on Jacques-Louis David's 'Marat', one of the key works of art created during the period of the French Revolution and one of the most important works of Western painting. Providing an introduction that outlines the general history of the painting, it provides six new essays, each specially written for this volume, which examine the work from a variety of methodologies, including feminist, psychoanalytic and material analysis approaches. Each of these essays provides for a broader and deeper understanding of the painting, the circumstances in which it was created and commissioned, and its critical and art historical reception over two centuries.
- One of the definitive paintings from Revolutionary France
- This book approaches the subject from six different disciplines
- The book brings to light new evidence and material on this famous painting
Product details
November 1999Hardback
9780521563376
206 pages
236 × 157 × 21 mm
0.43kg
Unavailable - out of print October 2006
Table of Contents
- Introduction William Vaughan and Helen Weston
- 1. Marat, l'Ami du Peuple, David: love and discipline in the summer of '93 Tom Gretton
- 2. David's Marat as posthumous portrait Anthony Halliday
- 3. Terror and the Tabula Rasa: Marat in an international pictorial context William Vaughan
- 4. Methods and materials in David's Marat Libby Sheldon
- 5. The Corday-Marat Affair: no place for a woman Helen Weston
- 6. Staging sacrifice: Munch, Picasso and Marat David Lomas
- Chronology, Bibliography
- Index.
