Item Number: 134400 Title: The Portrait Bust and French Cultural Politics in the Eighteenth Century Author: Milano, Ronit Price: Not Available ISBN: 9789004276246 Description: Leiden: Brill, 2015. 24cm., hardcover, 228pp. illus. Summary: 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. (Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History, 8. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 242) We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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