Aspects of "Official" Painting and Philosophic Art 1789-1799
Hardbound
1976 · New York
by Kelder, Diane
New York: Garland Publishing, Inc, 1976. Hardbound. VG. Blue cloth. [20], 237 pp., 61 bw plates. This book is a reprinting, without alteration, of the author's Doctoral Dissertation at Bryn Mawr College, completed in 1966. It examines the philosophical origins of Neo-Classicism in French Art and its adoption as the "official" art of the early Revolutionary period. Included are separate chapters on the Pre-Revolutionary Salons of 1781- 1789 and the Salons of the Revolutionary Period, 1791-1795. (Inventory #: 104135)