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26 cze 2015 · Designs for grand public works of art during the Revolution were of course plentiful, but the time such projects required meant that most were left abandoned as the political climate moved on, rendering the original idea outdated, and often politically awkward.
Michelet's History of the French Revolution, partially re printed in this volume, ranks especially high among the lasting monuments of historical writing for its entertainment value as history and its representative function as historiography. The two qualities, moreover, are connected, for the early-and mid
18 maj 2022 · 1 Famous French Revolution Paintings. 1.1 Marie Antoinette with the Rose (1783) by Élisabeth Louise Vigée le Brun. 1.2 The Storming of the Bastille (1790) by Jean-Baptiste Lallemand. 1.3 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (c. 1789) by Jean-Jacques-François le Barbier.
1789: French Art During the Revolution: Editor: Alan Wintermute: Contributors: Colin B. Bailey, William Olander, Carol S. Eliel, Colnaghi (Gallery) Edition: illustrated: Publisher:...
ARTHUR GOLDHAMMER. French, including Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. He is a three-time recipient of the French-American Foundation translation prize. France made him a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and the Académie Française awarded him its Médaille de Vermeil. CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT.
A cultural approach to the study of the French Revolution took off in the 1980s as a result of the coincidence of new intellectual and political currents with cele-brations of the Revolution’s bicentennial. By the turn of the new century, both the study of cultural phenomena (theatre, art and architecture, fashion, etc.) be-
Revolutionary portraits allowed sitters and artists to appropriate the means of representation, both aesthetic and political, and articulate new forms of selfhood and citizenship, often in astonishingly creative ways.
