Narrative Painting in Nineteenth-Century Europe Hardback
by Nina Lubbren
Hardback
Description
This ground-breaking book presents a critical study of pictorial narrative in nineteenth-century European painting.
Covering works from France, Germany, Britain, Italy and elsewhere, it traces the ways in which immensely popular artists like Jean-Léon Gérôme, Karl von Piloty and William Quiller Orchardson used unique visual strategies to tell thrilling and engaging stories.
Regardless of genre, content or national context, these paintings share a fundamental modern narrative mode.
Unlike traditional art, they do not rely on textual sources; nor do they tell stories through the human body alone. Instead, they experiment with objects, spaces, cause-and-effect relations and open-ended ambiguity, prompting viewers and reviewers to read for clues in order to weave their own elaborate tales. -- .
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages, 8 colour illustrations, 54 black & white illustrations
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:23/05/2023
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- ISBN:9781526168573
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Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:240 pages, 8 colour illustrations, 54 black & white illustrations
- Publisher:Manchester University Press
- Publication Date:23/05/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781526168573