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The Deaths of Henri Regnault (Hardcover)
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The Deaths of Henri Regnault (Hardcover)
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This is the first book in English on Henri Regnault (1843-71), a
forgotten star of the European fin-de-siecle. A brilliant maverick
who once seemed to hold the future of French painting in his hands,
Regnault enjoyed a meteoric rise that was cut short when he died at
the age of twenty-seven in the Franco-Prussian War. The story of
his glamorous career and patriotic death colored French
commemorative culture for nearly forty years--until his memory was
swept away by the vast losses of World War I. In The Deaths of
Henri Regnault, Marc Gotlieb reintroduces this important artist
while offering a new perspective on the ultimate decline of
nineteenth-century salon painting. Gotlieb traces Regnault's
trajectory after he won the prestigious Grand Prix de Rome, a
fellowship that provided four years of study in Italy. Arriving in
Rome, however, Regnault suffered a profound crisis of originality
that led him to flee the city in favor of Spain and Morocco. But
the crisis also proved productive: from Rome, Madrid, Tangier, and
Paris, Regnault enthralled audiences with a bold suite of strange,
seductive, and violent Orientalist paintings inspired by his exotic
journey--images that, Gotlieb argues, arose precisely from the
crisis that had overtaken Regnault and that in key respects was
shared by his more avant-garde counterparts. Both an in-depth look
at Regnault's violent art and a vibrant essay on historical memory,
The Deaths of Henri Regnault lays bare a creative legend who helped
shape the collective experience of a generation.
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