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Author:

Padiyar, Satish, 1964-

Title:

Chains : David, Canova, and the fall of the public hero in postrevolutionary France / Satish Padiyar.

Publisher:

Pennsylvania State University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xii, 225 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Subject:

Art and society--France--History--19th century.
Art, French--19th century--Themes, motives.
David, Jacques Louis,--1748-1825.--Leonidas at Thermopylae.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-217) and index.

Contents:

Heroism after the French Revolution : David's Leonidas at Thermopylae -- Inheriting Greek Eros : Anacreontism and homosexual desire -- Kant and the postrevolutionary subject : the aesthetics of freedom -- Subject and surface : Canova and the reinvention of classical sculpture -- Sade/David, in chains.

ISBN:

9780271029634 (alk. paper)
0271029633 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2006031929

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)