The Politics of the Provisional: Art and Ephemera in Revolutionary France - Brossura

Taws, Richard

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ISBN 10: 0271054190 ISBN 13: 9780271054193

Casa editrice: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 2014

Riassunto

In revolutionary France the life of things could not be assured. War, shortage of materials, and frequent changes in political authority meant that few large-scale artworks or permanent monuments to the Revolution&;s memory were completed. On the contrary, visual practice in revolutionary France was characterized by the production and circulation of a range of transitional, provisional, ephemeral, and half-made images and objects, from printed paper money, passports, and almanacs to temporary festival installations and relics of the demolished Bastille. Addressing this mass of images conventionally ignored in art history, The Politics of the Provisional contends that they were at the heart of debates on the nature of political authenticity and historical memory during the French Revolution. Thinking about material durability, this book suggests, was one of the key ways in which revolutionaries conceptualized duration, and it was crucial to how they imagined the Revolution&;s transformative role in history.

The Politics of the Provisional is the first book in the Art History Publication Initiative (AHPI), a collaborative grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Thanks to the AHPI grant, this book is available on a variety of popular e-book platforms.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Richard Taws is Lecturer in the History of Art Department, University College London.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0271054190
• ISBN 13: 9780271054193
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 214
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile