Visualizing the Revolution

Politics and Pictorial Arts in Late Eighteenth-century France

By: Hubertus Kohle

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Hardcover | 1 January 2008

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The French Revolution was marked by a wealth of imagery and visual symbolism that inspired the masses to fight for freedom. Visualizing the Revolution surveys the rich and multifaceted visual culture of the French Revolution, exploring its creation and how it conveyed the new revolutionary sensibilities of the era.

Unlike most studies on art of the French Revolution, Visualizing the Revolution embraces a wide range of artistic genres—including prints, architecture, painting, and sculpture—and also draws upon archival documents to investigate the period’s aesthetic concerns. The authors break new ground in methodology and interpretative practice as they tease out the web of connections between these various historical artifacts and argue for the central place of the arts in the transmission of ideas and the political manipulation of the populace. The book translates the provocatively new visual language revealed in these artworks and writings and shows how its emphasis on metaphor, allegory, and symbolism transformed French mass visual culture. An innovative and lushly illustrated study, Visualizing the Revolution is a worthy new contribution to scholarship on the French Revolution and the history of French art.

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To truly "visualize the Revolution," as the authors of this fascinating book maintain, requires a study of the images found in the caricatures and pamphlets of the penny press. Indeed, Reichardt and Kohle argue that such quotidian illustrations, often made days after the event, are a more authentic reflection of the revolution's artistic culture than studio painting, which, owing to the rush of circumstances, often remained unfinished ... The amassing of this unfamiliar trove, the decipherment of often-arcane examples, and the analysis of their relation to revolutionary discourse are the major contributions of this study. Highly recommended. Choice the book navigates admirably between the dynamics of the Revolution and the vast array of objects that "visualized" them. Historians and art historians alike of eighteenth-century France will no doubt receive the volume as a welcome contribution to the field and, perhaps most of all, as a pedagogical resource. CAA Reviews a new contribution and approach ... this publication is a useful step in understanding not only the changes in printmaking at the end of the eighteenth century, but also the complex discourse surrounding it. Print Quarterly

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Introduction: On the Threshold of a New Era for the Arts	p. 7
Staging the Revolution	p. 13
Contemporary Images of Revolutionary Change	p. 35
Scenes of the New Political and Cultural Order	p. 91
Reorganizing the Artistic Sphere	p. 131
From Aristocrat to New Man	p. 150
Between Terror and Freedom	p. 183
Visualizing the Revolution	p. 212
Chronology	p. 240
References	p. 251
Bibliography	p. 278
Index	p. 291
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Politics and Pictorial Arts in Late Eighteenth-century France

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