Representing the Past in the Art of the Long Nineteenth Century: Historicism, Postmodernism, and Internationalism

ISBN-13: 9781138544352 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 280 str.

MATTHEW POTTER

Opis

This edited collection explores the intersection of historical studies and the artistic representation of the past in the long nineteenth century.

Spis treści

1 From the Abstract World of Ideas to the Truest Possible Representation of the Historical Event: An Introduction to Historical Art in the Long Nineteenth Century  2 Painting the ‘vie privée of Our Forefathers’: The Dutch and Flemish Schools as Models in the Formulation of New Visions of the Past in Early Nineteenth-Century Painting  3 Delécluze’s Augustus And Cinna: Painting and Performing Rome at the End of the Napoleonic Empire  4 ‘The Exact Moment’: Representing History in Delaroche’s Assassination of the Duc de Guise  5 Spanish Painting: Recreating a Perceived ‘Golden Age’  6 To Conjure Up the Spirits of the Past: German Romantic History Painting in America  7 The Relativity of History: The Pre-Raphaelite Rhetoric of Time  8 Beyond the ‘Ten Complete Military Victories’: Images of Battle in the Late-Qing Period  9 Jan Matejko and Polish Historical Painting  10 Representing the Finnish Past: Heritage and the World of the Ancient Finn  11 ‘A Lady So Long Deceased’: The Death of the Historical Muse in Australian Painting, 1880–1911  12 History as You Go: Mobility, Photography, and the Visibility of the Past in Late Ottoman Print Space

O autorze

Matthew C. Potter is Professor in Art and Design History at Northumbria University.