Description
Super 8vo, IV. 374pp. Hardcover, d/w in excellent condition protected by clear archival covering, text in excellent condition with very minor early flecking on foredges. This original book examines the French artist David and his personal crises in the context of the larger cutural and social formations emerging in France after the Reign of Terror in the late 1700’s. It offers a fascinating new perspective on both his paintings and on French artistic culture and is in fact a feminist work on the highest level: incisive, provocative, complex, and convincing. Well illustrated with both b/w and colour photograps.