Research Catalog

Title

Culture and revolution : cultural ramifications of the French Revolution / edited by George Levitine ; assistant editors and translators, Pamela Hall, Eda Levitine, and Susan Houghton Libby.

Publication

College Park, Md. : Dept. of Art History, University of Maryland at College Park, 1989.

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Details

Additional Authors

Levitine, George.

Description

xv, 320 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Alternative Title

Culture et révolution.

Subject

• Arts, French > 18th century > Congresses
• Arts, French > 19th century > Congresses
• Arts and revolutions > France > History > 18th century > Congresses
• Arts and revolutions > France > History > 19th century > Congresses
• France > History > Influence > Revolution, 1789-1799 > Congresses

Note

• "Acts of the symposium Culture et révolution, cultural ramifications of the French Revolution, held at the University of Maryland, College Park, November 20-22, 1987"--P. [v]

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword: George Levitine and Culture and revolution -- Iconography: an approach from the revolutionary mentality / Michel Vovelle -- Revolutionary role of the army: to regenerate man, to form a model citizen, a model for civil society? / Jean-Paul Bertaud -- Political revolution and musical revolution: coincidences and contradictions / Michelle Biget -- David's contemporaries: a generation of artists against the revolution / Philippe Bordes -- Acculturation of a revolutionary: the example of J.-N. Billaud-Varenne (1786-1791) / Françoise Brunel -- Effect of color in the birth of modernity / Jean-Philippe Chimot -- Political versus aesthetic revolutions: the 1780-1800 period as a case study / Rémi Clignet -- Republican art of cookery / Beatrice Fink -- Discourse and revolution: the foundation of political language (1789-1792) / Jacques Guilhaumou -- Imaginary at the foot of the scaffold: did the terror produce masterpieces? / Edouard Guitton -- From L'an II to the Centenary: Rousseau to Marat in bronze / June E. Hargrove -- Quatremere de Quincy and the revolution in neo-classical Egyptology / Sylvia Lavin -- On the religiosity of the French Revolution / James Leith -- Revolutionary France, revolutionized France, France in revolution: for a clarification of rhythms and concepts / Claude Mazauric -- Madame de Charriere, Observer of the French Revolution / Roland Mortier -- Politics of Quatremère de Quincy's romantic classicism / James H. Rubin -- W.A. Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte talk about revolution / Charles Russell -- Restoration view of the Revolution of 1789 / Frank Anderson Trapp -- Painting competition of L'an II: a dream if ever there were one / Udolpho van de Sandt -- Death of Bassville: a riot in Rome and its repercussions on the arts in France / Jane Van Nimmen -- Intimate portrayals of Napoleon's family / Diana Withee

Call Number

JFE 03-7657

ISBN

0962593206

LCCN

90010896

OCLC

21338450

Title

Culture and revolution : cultural ramifications of the French Revolution / edited by George Levitine ; assistant editors and translators, Pamela Hall, Eda Levitine, and Susan Houghton Libby.

Imprint

College Park, Md. : Dept. of Art History, University of Maryland at College Park, 1989.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Levitine, George.

Added Title

Culture et révolution.

Research Call Number

JFE 03-7657