{"product_id":"chains-david-canova-and-the-fall-of-the-public-hero-in-postrevolutionary-france-9780271029634","title":"Chains David Canova and the Fall of the Public","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of Jacques-Louis David's most ambitious and darkly enigmatic paintings, \"Leonidas at the Pass of Thermopylae\", hangs in the Louvre, largely ignored. Focusing on this painting, this work embarks on a discourse about the perception of the body, sexuality, and subjectivity in early nineteenth-century European art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An outstanding work of great importance. . . . \u003ci\u003eChains\u003c\/i\u003e uses art to make broader claims about subjectivity in general and gay subjectivity in particular that are entirely novel and provocative.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Ewa Lajer-Burcharth,Harvard University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is an unusually intelligent and original study. It offers, by way of a detailed discussion of David’s most significant and ideologically charged late painting, \u003ci\u003eLeonidas at the Pass of Thermopylae\u003c\/i\u003e, a truly novel perspective on the larger significance of new tendencies in French neoclassical painting and aesthetics in the complex and politically fraught postrevolutionary period of the early nineteenth century.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Alex Potts,University of Michigan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The writings are thoughtfully arranged and the images included are mostly color. Substantive notes and an appendix enhance the text.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—T.L. Wilson \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Kantian and psychoanalytic versions of subjectivity sit back-to-back. To read this lucid and complex book-–also beautifully produced-–is to feel how these chains, intertwining, tug at us still.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Brendan Prenderville \u003ci\u003eArt History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Intellectual historians will no doubt have much to say, pro and con, about the claims that surround Padiyar’s account of \u003ci\u003eLeonidas at Thermopylae\u003c\/i\u003e. Whatever their arguments, however, they will learn a great deal about art along the way. Art historians, for their part, will encounter an important emerging voice in the discipline that defies safe predictability.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e—Thomas Crow \u003ci\u003eJournal of Modern History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eContents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Heroism After the French Revolution: Davids \u003ci\u003eLeonidas at Thermopylae\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Inheriting Greek Eros: Anacreontism and Homosexual Desire\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Kant and the Postrevolutionary Subject: The Aesthetics of Freedom\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Subject and Surface: Canova and the Reinvention of Classical Sculpture\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. Sade\/David, in Chains\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAppendix\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelect Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penn State University","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036864250199,"sku":"9780271029634","price":60.31,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780271029634.jpg?v=1750932785","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/chains-david-canova-and-the-fall-of-the-public-hero-in-postrevolutionary-france-9780271029634","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}