The Portrait Bust and French Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century

xiii, 228 pp. with 63 color illustrations
ISBN: 978-90-04-27624-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 242/8, 13 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 511 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History / Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History

In The Portrait Bust and French Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century, Ronit Milano probes the rich and complex aesthetic and intellectual charge of a remarkably concise art form, and explores its role as a powerful agent of epistemological change during one of the most seismic moments in French history.
The pre-Revolutionary portrait bust was inextricably tied to the formation of modern selfhood and to the construction of individual identity during the Enlightenment, while positioning both sitters and viewers as part of a collective of individuals who together formed French society. In analyzing the contribution of the portrait bust to the construction of interiority and the formulation of new gender roles and political ideals, this book touches upon a set of concerns that constitute the very core of our modernity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Milano, Ronit

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Barock, Klassizismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Bildhauerei, Plastik, Denkmäler
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen Portraitdarstellung in der Kunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: “He is a Philosopher”: Individual versus Collective Identity
Chapter 2: Decent Exposure: Bosoms, Smiles and Maternal Delight in Female Portraits
Chapter 3: Between Innocence and Disillusion: Representations of Children and Childhood
Chapter 4: Transitional Identities: Family Structure, the Social Order, and Alternative Masculinities at the Dawn of Modernity
Chapter 5: The Face of the Monarchy: Court Propaganda and the Portrait Bust
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Ronit Milano is a faculty member in the Department of the Arts, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. She has published several articles on the French pre-Revolutionary portrait bust, and is currently writing a book on contemporary art installations in eighteenth-century sites.