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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777690303321

Autore

Rifkin Adrian

Titolo

Ingres then, and now / / Adrian Rifkin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-91871-2

1-280-11288-3

1-134-91872-0

0-203-97646-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (178 p.)

Collana

Re visions

Disciplina

759.4

B

Soggetti

Painting - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Ingres Then, and Now; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preliminary: from the bizarre to the sublime; Introduction: the formation of a palimpsest; 1. Ingres and the Arcades; 2. AcadeĢmie, or the colour white and the childhood of art criticism; 3. A filament in the tissues of modernity; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Ingres Then, and Now  is an innovative study of one of the best-known French artists of the nineteenth century, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. Adrian Rifkin re-evaluates Ingres' work in the context of a variety of literary, musical and visual cultures which are normally seen as alien to him. Re-viewing Ingres' paintings as a series of fragmentary symptoms of the commodity cultures of nineteenth-century Paris, Adrian Rifkin draws the artist away from his familiar association with the Academy and the Salon.Rifkin sets out to show how, by thinking of the historical archive as a form