Théodore Géricault

New monograph exploring the fascinating life and works of Géricault.


A new monograph exploring the life and works of Théodore Géricault (17911824), an artist whose life, imagination and legacy continue to enthrall audiences, artists and critics alike. Géricault's small but varied oeuvre has consistently defied easy definition; the artist himself struggled throughout his short career with the conflicting demands of the grand Neo-classical style and radical Romanticism. He was drawn to subjects of drama and horror, painting gruesome scenes of life in France as Napoleon's Empire ceded to a restored Monarchy few more shocking than the cannibalism among shipwrecked victims that inspired his masterpiece The Raft of the Medusa.Yet equally significant in his artistic production was a passion for the wild imagery of horses, which even dictated his choice of painting teacher and led to some of the greatest equestrian portraits and history paintings in French art. Géricault also took great interest in the depths of the human mind, which inspired his riveting portraits.

In this incisive and comprehensive survey, Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer pays tribute to established Géricault scholarship, but also reassesses the career of an artist too easily miscast as the archetypal 'tortured soul' of art-historical Romantic mythology. Athanassoglou-Kallmyer discusses all the artist's key paintings and drawings, with particular attention to the iconic Raft of the Medusa, the history of its production and its artistic afterlife up to the present day.

Autorentext
Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer is Professor of Art History at the University of Delaware. She has published extensively on French nineteenth-century art, including essays and books on Géricault, Horace Vernet, Delacroix and Cézanne.

Klappentext
A pioneer of the French Romantic movement, the painter, draughtsman, lithographer and sculptor Théodore Géricault (1791-1824) remains one of the most compelling and complex figures in Western art history

Zusammenfassung
New monograph exploring the fascinating life and works of Gericault.

Inhalt
Introduction / Man of his Time / Chapter 1. The Spectacle of War Beginnings in Life and Art / Chapter 2. 'C'est de l'antique moderne' Gericault and Italy / Chapter 3. Military Martyrs and Military Rebels Gericault and the Liberal Ideal / Chapter 4. The Politics of Horror Creating The Raft of the Medusa / Chapter 5. Of England and the English The Raft of the Medusa in London / Chapter 6. The Reason of Unreason The Portraits of the Insane / Epilogue. Histories of Gericault / Chronology / Map / Biographies / Glossary / Bibliography / Index / Acknowledgements

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