The Emblems of Reason 1789

Starobinski, Jean; Bray, Barbara (translator)

ISBN 10: 0813909155 / ISBN 13: 9780813909158

Published by University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A., 1982

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1/2" closed tear to front top edge of dustjacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Emblems of Reason 1789
• Publisher: University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1982
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813909155
• ISBN 13: 9780813909158
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
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Synopsis

1ST U.S. EDITION, Hardcover, by Jean Starobinski, translated by Barbara Bray. B/w illustrations. A study of the connections between art and revolution, comparing the style of the French Revolution as a political event to style in the contemporaneous visual arts. "Moving with intellectual grace and extraordinary erudition over painting, architecture, music, philosophy, and political history, Starobinski enables us to see the art of David, Fuseli, Goya, Mozart, Boullee, and a host of others in new perspective, not as a reflection but as integral part of the events that changed the course of modern history."

About the Author

Jean Starobinski is Professor of the History of Ideas and French Literature at the University of Geneva. His books in English include Blessings in Disguise: Or, the Morality of Evil; The Invention of Liberty, 1700-1789; Montaigne in Motion; Revolution in Fashion: European Clothing, 1715-1815; Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Transparency and Obstruction; A History of Medicine; and The Living Eye.