Rupture, interrupted Rococo recursions and political futures in Percier and Fontaine's Napoleon fan
"In 1798, the French architects Charles Percier and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine, along with the sculptor Antoine-Denis Chaudet designed a fan to commemorate the recent military successes of Napoleon Bonaparte. John Gamble, an English print seller based in Paris, subsequently hired John God...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Time, media, and visuality in post-revolutionary France / edited by Iris Moon and Richard Taws |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "In 1798, the French architects Charles Percier and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine, along with the sculptor Antoine-Denis Chaudet designed a fan to commemorate the recent military successes of Napoleon Bonaparte. John Gamble, an English print seller based in Paris, subsequently hired John Godfrey to engrave the fan, marketing it as a commercial print. This chapter explores this commemorative fan in the context of a particularly precarious political moment for the Corsican general, and asks what was at stake in transforming a frivolous and obsolete woman’s fashion accessory into an authored and widely circulated work of art. Registering the dialectical tension between its status as an outdated fashion object and a printed image auguring France’s political future, the fan animates the broader cultural, artistic, and temporal fluctuations of a post-revolutionary France seeking to cut its ties to the recent past." |
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| Beschreibung: | Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5013-4839-6 |