David after David: Essays on the Later Work

Mark Ledbury

ISBN 10: 0300121512 / ISBN 13: 9780300121513

Published by Clark Art Institute, 2007

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Synopsis:

With essays by Valérie Bajou, Philippe Bordes, Thomas Crow, Michael Fried, Tom Gretton, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Stéphane Guégan, Daniel Harkett, Godehard Janzing, Dorothy Johnson, Mehdi Korchane, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Issa Lampe, Mark Ledbury, Simon Lee, Heather McPherson, David O’Brien, Satish Padiyar, Todd Porterfield, Susan L. Siegfried, and Helen Weston 



    Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825), the most celebrated painter of his era, was appointed court painter to Napoleon in 1804 and exiled to Brussels in 1816. This important book––based on the proceedings of an international symposium––explores David’s grand projects of the Empire period and the often mysterious works produced in his last years as a political exile.
David after David features twenty-one essays by leading art historians that discuss these later works––which include innovative portraits as well as paintings and drawings that address the opposing themes of the antique and modern––in the aesthetic, political, and social contexts of their production and reception. The book also draws upon recently discovered letters the artist wrote in exile and provides fascinating new perspectives into his life and art.





Distributed for the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

About the Author:

Mark Ledbury is associate director of the Research and Academic Program at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.

Bibliographic Details

Title: David after David: Essays on the Later Work
Publisher: Clark Art Institute
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Edition: Illustrated.