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Johnson, Dorothy

Jacques-Louis David : art in metamorphosis / by Dorothy Johnson - Princeton, N.J. Chichester : Princeton University Press, c1993 - xv, 316 p.,[8]p of plates : ill. (some col.), ports(some col.) ; 26 cm - The Princeton series in nineteenth-century art, culture, and society . - Princeton series in nineteenth-century art, culture, and society .

Bibliography: p305-308. - Includes index.

A series of essays that examines the aesthetic innovation that shaped the career of a French neoclassicist, focusing on such topics as the painter's life-long experimentation with corporality, his reinterpretation of mythology, and his link with the age of French romanticism.

ISBN: 9780691032184 9780691032184 £29.95

Subjects--Personal Names:
David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825 --Criticism and interpretation
David, Jacques Louis, 1748-1825 --Aesthetics

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Painting
Individual artists, art monographs
Painting & paintings
History of art