Painting and Narrative in France, from Poussin to Gauguin

Zusatztext 'The introduction [...] is a model of its kind; no better overview could have been written of the characteristics of narrative painting and of how critics have construed it from the time of Lessing onwards. It sparkles with ideas about the fundamental nature and complexity of narrative and will become required reading for anyone with a serious interest in French history painting. This high standard is continued in the following thirteeen essays [...].' (Simon Lee! The Burlington Magazine! September 2018) Informationen zum Autor Peter Cooke is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. His most recent book is Gustave Moreau: History Painting, Spirituality and Symbolism . Nina Lübbren is Art Historian and Principal Lecturer in Film Studies, and Deputy Head of Department of English, Communication, Film and Media, Anglia Ruskin University, UK. Zusammenfassung Using a range of theoretical perspectives, this book offers a study on key issues such as temporality, theatricality, word-and-image relations, the narrative function of inanimate objects, the role played by viewers, and the ways in which visual narrative has been bound up with history painting. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents List of Figures vii Notes on Contributors xii Acknowledgements xv Introduction: Narrativity and (French) Painting Peter Cooke and Nina Lübbren Section I Ancien Régime 1 Units of Vision and Narrative Structures: Upon Reading Poussin's Manna Claudine Mitchell 2 Figures of Narration in the Context of a Painted Cycle: The North Bays of the Grande Galerie at Versailles Marianne Cojannot-Le Blanc 3 The Crisis of Narration in Eighteenth-century French History Painting Susanna Caviglia 4 Obscure, Capricious and Bizarre: Neoclassical Painting and the Choice of Subject Mark Ledbury SECTION II Restoration and July Monarchy 5 Delacroix and 'The Work of the Reader' Beth S. Wright 6 Narrative and History in Léopold Robert's Arrival of the Harvesters in the Pontine Marshes Richard Wrigley 7 Narrative Strategies in Paul Delaroche's Assassination of the Duc de Guise Patricia Smyth SECTION III Second Empire and Third Republic 8 Eloquent Objects: Gérôme, Laurens and the Art of Inanimate Narration Nina Lübbren 9 Tyrannical Inopportunity: Gustave Moreau's Anti-narrative Strategies Scott C. Allan 10 Theatricality Versus Anti-Theatricality: Narrative Techniques in French History Painting (1850-1900) Pierre Sérié 11 The Conflicted Status of Narrative in the Art of Paul Gauguin Belinda Thomson SECTION IV Key Issues of Pictorial Narrative 12 Narrativity, Temporality and Allegorisation, from Poussin to Moreau Peter Cooke 13 Towards a Study of Narration in Painting: The Early Modern Period Étienne Jollet Index ...

Auteur

Peter Cooke is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. His most recent book is Gustave Moreau: History Painting, Spirituality and Symbolism.

Nina Lübbren is Art Historian and Principal Lecturer in Film Studies, and Deputy Head of Department of English, Communication, Film and Media, Anglia Ruskin University, UK.

Résumé
Using a range of theoretical perspectives, this book offers a study on key issues such as temporality, theatricality, word-and-image relations, the narrative function of inanimate objects, the role played by viewers, and the ways in which visual narrative has been bound up with history painting.

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Contents

List of Figures vii

Notes on Contributors xii

Acknowledgements xv

Introduction: Narrativity and (French) Painting
Peter Cooke and Nina Lübbren

Section I
Ancien Régime

1 Units of Vision and Narrative Structures: Upon Reading Poussin's Manna
Claudine Mitchell

2 Figures of Narration in the Context of a Painted Cycle: The North Bays of the Grande Galerie at Versailles
Marianne Cojannot-Le Blanc

3 The Crisis of Narration in Eighteenth-century French History Painting
Susanna Caviglia

4 Obscure, Capricious and Bizarre: Neoclassical Painting and the Choice of Subject
Mark Ledbury

SECTION II
Restoration and July Monarchy

5 Delacroix and 'The Work of the Reader'
Beth S. Wright

6 Narrative and History in Léopold Robert's Arrival of the Harvesters in the Pontine Marshes
Richard Wrigley

7 Narrative Strategies in Paul Delaroche's Assassination of the Duc de Guise
Patricia Smyth

SECTION III
Second Empire and Third Republic

8 Eloquent Objects: Gérôme, Laurens and the Art of Inanimate Narration
Nina Lübbren

9 Tyrannical Inopportunity: Gustave Moreau's Anti-narrative Strategies
Scott C. Allan

10 Theatricality Versus Anti-Theatricality: Narrative Techniques in French History Painting (18501900)
Pierre Sérié

11 The Conflicted Status of Narrative in the Art of Paul Gauguin
Belinda Thomson

SECTION IV
Key Issues of Pictorial Narrative

12 Narrativity, Temporality and Allegorisation, from Poussin to Moreau
Peter Cooke

13 Towards a Study of Narration in Painting: The Early Modern Period
Étienne Jollet

Index