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The allure of empire :art in the service of French imperialism, 1798-1836
- 作者: Porterfield, Todd B.
- 出版: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press c1998.
- 稽核項: viii, 244 p. :ill. (some col.) ;26 cm.
- 標題: Romanticism in art , Exoticism in art , France Cultural policy -- History -- 19th century. , Art and state , France , Exoticism in art France. , Cultural policyHistory , Art and state France. , Nationalism and art France. , Nationalism and art , Romanticism in art France.
- ISBN: 0691059594 , 9780691059594
- 附註: 九十三年度教育部「輔導新設國立大學健全發展計畫」藏書. Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-234) and index.
- 系統號: 005014910
- 資料類型: 圖書
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From monumental battle paintings to the public display of archaeological spoils to the decoration of urban vistas, visual culture promoted modern French imperialism. So argues Todd Porterfield in this provocative look at the forces of art and politics in France's military conquest of the Near East. In challenging the conventional wisdom that France happened into imperial venture, Porterfield explores interactions among artists, generals, journalists, curators, and politicians from the time of Napoleon's Egyptian campaign to the invasion of Algeria during the Restoration and July Monarchy. Together they forged an official culture that provided a rationale for imperialism--based on images of France's moral and technological superiority--and an enduring project for Frenchmen of all political persuasions during an era of domestic instability. The allure of empire derived in part from its function as an alternative, surrogate, mask, and displacement of the Revolution. Porterfield reveals the interlocking strategies, the historical, scientific, moralistic, and gendered judgments, that imperial art conveyed in a strikingly rich variety of media: the obelisk at the Place de la Concorde, battle paintings of the Egyptian campaign, the first Egyptian Museum in the Louvre, and Delacroix's Women of Algiers. Not only do his analyses engage a wide range of urgent debates within cultural studies, but they also shed light on a troubling question. How in the age oflibert,, egalit,, and fraternit, was visual culture enlisted to fabricate a sense of national superiority that led to the subjugation of others?
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