The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix (Cambridge Companions to the History of Art) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521658896 ISBN 13: 9780521658898

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2001

Synopsis

The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix serves as an introduction to one of the most important and most complex artists of the nineteenth century. Providing an overview of his life and career, this volume offers essays by leading authorities on the artist's pictorial practice, the stylistic range over classicism and Romanticism, his writings, both private diary notations and published articles, and his impact on modern aesthetics, among other topics. Designed to serve as an essential resource for students of French nineteenth-century art history, cultural history, and literature, The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix also provides a chronology of the artist's life, set into its political and cultural contexts, as well as a list of suggested further reading in the topic areas.

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Book Description:

The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix serves as an introduction to one of the most important and most complex artists of the nineteenth century. Providing an overview of his life and career, this volume offers essays by leading authorities on the artist's pictorial practice, the stylistic range over Classicism and Romanticism, his writings, both private diary notations and published articles, and his impact on modern aesthetics, among other topics. The Cambridge Companion to Delacroix is designed to serve as an essential resource for students of French nineteenth-century art history, cultural history, and literature.

Review:

"The book is an indispensable tool for the scholar who needs perspective on Delacroix and his time." Nineteenth-Century French Studies

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0521658896
• ISBN 13: 9780521658898
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Wright Beth S.