Fables in frames: LaFontaine and visual culture in nineteenth century France

Fables in Frames argues that the increased interest in the fables of La Fontaine during the nineteenth century resulted largely from the activities of artists, who offered the seventeenth-century fables new contexts for a post-Revolution age. First in caricature and book illustrations and later in S...

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1. Verfasser: Powell, Kirsten H. 1951- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York [u.a.] Lang 1997
Schriftenreihe:Literature and the visual arts 10
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Zusammenfassung:Fables in Frames argues that the increased interest in the fables of La Fontaine during the nineteenth century resulted largely from the activities of artists, who offered the seventeenth-century fables new contexts for a post-Revolution age. First in caricature and book illustrations and later in Salon painting, artists transformed the fables to comment on contemporary issues
The goal of this study is to tackle the general issue of why La Fontaine's fables appeared in art at all during the nineteenth century and to explore the specific questions of how certain artists made those texts culturally normative
Beschreibung:XVI, 180 S. Ill.
ISBN:082043096X

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