Realism and Role-Play: The Human Figure in French Art from Callot to the Brothers Le Nain
(Part of the Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture Series)
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After the heroic nudes of the Renaissance and depictions of the tortured bodies of Christian saints, early seventeenth-century French artists turned their attention to their fellow humans, to nobles and beggars seen on the streets of Paris, to courtesans standing at their windows, to vendors advertising their wares, to peasants standing before their landlords. Fascinated by the intricate politics of the encounter between two human beings, artists such as Jacques Callot, Daniel Rabel, Abraham Bosse, Claude Vignon, Georges de la Tour, Jean de Saint-Igny, the Brothers Le Nain, Pierre Br?biette, Jean I Le Blond, and Charles David represented the human figure as a performer acting out a social role. The resulting figures were everyday types whose representations in series of prints, painted galleries, and illustrated books created a repertoire of such contemporary roles. Realism and Role-Play draws on literature, social history, and affect theory in order to understand the way that figuration performed social positions. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1644532050
ISBN13:9781644532058
Release Date:December 2020
Publisher:University of Delaware Press
Length:324 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.4" x 14.4"
Age Range:16 years and up
Grade Range:Grade 11 and higher
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