[PDF] The Visual Culture Of Violence After The French Revolution eBook

Author : Lela Graybill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 12,47 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 1351539620

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The Visual Culture of Violence after the French Revolution traces four sites of spectatorship that exemplified the visual culture of violence in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, offering a new account of the significance of violent spectacle to the birth of modernity. Considerations of the execution scaffold, salon painting, print culture and the fait divers, and waxworks displays establish the centrality of spectatorial violence to experiences of selfhood in the wake of the French Revolution. Shedding critical light on previously neglected aspects of art and visual culture of the post-Revolutionary period, The Visual Culture of Violence after the French Revolution demonstrates how violent spectacle at this moment was profoundly shaped by shifting social attitudes, contemporary political practices, and rapidly accelerated technological developments. By attending to the formal and historical specificity of violent spectacle after the Revolution, Graybill affirms the historical contingency through which the visual culture of violence in the modern era has emerged. The Visual Culture of Violence after the French Revolution will be broadly relevant to scholars of art, media and visual studies, and particularly to historians of the French Revolution and eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe. The book's concern with the representation of violence makes it of interest to scholars working in a variety of fields beyond its historical period, especially in art, literature, history, media and culture studies.

Author : Nicholas Mirzoeff
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 21,51 MB
Release : 2011-11-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 0822349183

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Develops a comparative de-colonial framework for visual culture studies.

Author : Jane Kromm
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 26,68 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1441143300

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The Art of Frenzy presents a masterful analysis of public madness from the Renaissance to the Industrial Age. Frenzy--the most flagrant and political form of madness--is the madness of warrior-heroes, kings, scolds, and the possessed. Its representation incorporates a range of traditional characters and figures, from Hercules and Orlando to Medea and Britannia. Understood as abusive power and belligerence out of control, and described in terms drawn equally from definitions of tyranny and liberty, frenzy has always been articulated with a significant degree of political meaning. Integrating art history with cultural studies, political history, and the history of medicine, Jane Kromm draws on a wide range of mediums and contexts--from asylum sculpture to political broadsheets, medical texts, the imagery of revolution, caricature and medical illustrations--to clarify the importance of this interpretative pattern.

Author : Kaylee P. Alexander
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,88 MB
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 1000930998

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This book takes a novel, data-driven approach to the cemeteries of Paris, analyzing a largely text-based body of archival material as proxy evidence for visual material that has been lost due to systematic, and legally sanctioned, acts of erasure. This study represents the first full-length study of vernacular monuments in France and the entrepreneurs who made them. It also provides methodical considerations, at the intersection of the computational and digital humanities for managing survival biases in extant historical evidence, that are applicable beyond the thematic focus of this book. Since extant examples of these more inconspicuous monuments are rare, this project employs both distant and close viewing—analyzing commercial almanacs, work logs, and burial records in aggregates alongside detailed case studies—to compensate for gaps in the material record. The book will be of interest to scholars working in visual culture, popular culture, digital humanities, and French history.

Author : Mette Harder
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 13,25 MB
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : History
ISBN : 1350077313

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The French Revolution brought momentous political, social, and cultural change. Life in Revolutionary France asks how these changes affected everyday lives, in urban and rural areas, and on an international scale. An international cast of distinguished academics and emerging scholars present new research on how people experienced and survived the revolutionary decade, with a particular focus on individual and collective agency as discovered through the archival record, material culture, and the history of emotions. It combines innovative work with student-friendly essays to offer fresh perspectives on topics such as: * Political identities and activism * Gender, race, and sexuality * Transatlantic responses to war and revolution * Local and workplace surveillance and transparency * Prison communities and culture * Food, health, and radical medicine * Revolutionary childhoods With an easy-to-navigate, three-part structure, illustrations and primary source excerpts, Life in Revolutionary France is the essential text for approaching the experiences of those who lived through one of the most turbulent times in world history.

Author : Iris Moon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 13,49 MB
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1501348418

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The radical break with the past heralded by the French Revolution in 1789 has become one of the mythic narratives of our time. Yet in the drawn-out afterlife of the Revolution, and through subsequent periods of Empire, Restoration, and Republic, the question of what such a temporal transformation might involve found complex, often unresolved expression in visual and material culture. This diverse collection of essays draws attention to the eclectic objects and forms of visuality that emerged in France from the beginning of the French Revolution through to the end of the July Monarchy in 1848. It offers a new account of the story of French art's modernity by exploring the work of genre painters and miniaturists, sign-painters and animal artists, landscapists, architects, and printmakers, as they worked out what it meant to be “post-revolutionary.”

Author : Lela Jenice Graybill
Publisher :
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 23,4 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Executions and executioners in art
ISBN : 9780542894244

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The Wound and the Weapon examines how shifting social attitudes, political practices, and technological developments transformed the staging of violence in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. I argue that at the same moment in which violence and death were being increasingly removed from public view, displays of violence began to eschew many of the pedagogical purposes of religious and political culture in favor of overtly exhibitionist values.

Author : Satish Padiyar
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,43 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 9781472447111

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Cultures of Participation -- War and the Image -- Cultures of Commemoration

Author : Erin-Marie Legacey
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 36,45 MB
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501715615

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The dead of Paris, before the French Revolution, were most often consigned to mass graveyards that contemporaries described as terrible and terrifying, emitting "putrid miasmas" that were a threat to both health and dignity. In a book that is at once wonderfully macabre and exceptionally informative, Erin-Marie Legacey explores how a new burial culture emerged in Paris as a result of both revolutionary fervor and public health concerns, resulting in the construction of park-like cemeteries on the outskirts of the city and a vast underground ossuary. Making Space for the Dead describes how revolutionaries placed the dead at the center of their republican project of radical reinvention of French society and envisioned a future where graveyards would do more than safely contain human remains; they would serve to educate and inspire the living. Legacey unearths the unexpectedly lively process by which burial sites were reimagined, built, and used, focusing on three of the most important of these new spaces: the Paris Catacombs, Père Lachaise cemetery, and the short-lived Museum of French Monuments. By situating discussions of death and memory in the nation's broader cultural and political context, as well as highlighting how ordinary Parisians understood and experienced these sites, she shows how the treatment of the dead became central to the reconstruction of Parisian society after the Revolution.

Author : Tom Stammers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 10,40 MB
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 1108478840

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Offers a broad and vivid overview of the culture of collecting in France over the long nineteenth-century.