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Sculpture and Enlightenment (Hardcover)
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Sculpture and Enlightenment (Hardcover)
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This pioneering book chronicles the transformation of public art in
eighteenth-century France. As royal and ecclesiastical authority
waned under the rule of Louis XV, there emerged nascent democratic
institutions, a new metaphysics, and a radical political
consciousness--a paradigm shift that profoundly marked the forms
that commemorative sculpture and architecture took. As a French
Catholic heritage gave way to more civic-minded and secular views
of posterity, how was the monument reinterpreted? How did works by
Clodion, Jean-Antoine Houdon, Augustin Pajou, Marie-Joseph Peyre,
and Jacques Germain Soufflot, among others, speak to the aesthetic
philosophies of Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Voltaire?
Analyzing an extraordinary range of artistic projects--from
unrealized plans for a Bourbon memorial to the sculptural program
for the Pantheon--Erika Naginski appraises how the Enlightenment
art of res publica intersected with historical forces, social
movements, and continental philosophies that brought Western
culture to the cusp of modernity.
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