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Visual Culture and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (Hardcover)
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Visual Culture and the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (Hardcover)
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Individually and collectively, the essays in this
cross-disciplinary collection explore the impact of the
revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars on European visual culture, from
the outbreak of the pan-European conflict with France in 1792 to
the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Through
consideration of a range of media, from academic painting to
prints, drawings and printed ephemera, this book offers fresh
understanding of the rich variety of ways in which warfare was
mediated in visual cultures in Britain and continental Europe. The
fourteen essays in the collection are grouped thematically into
three sections, each focusing on a specific type of visual
communication. Thus, Part One engages with historically specific
ways of transmitting messages about war and conflict, including
maps, prints, silhouette imagery and war games produced in France
and Germany; Part Two considers popular and elite imagining of war
between 1793 and 1815, encompassing readings of paintings by
Turner, Girodet and Goya, Portuguese anti-French drawings and
British satirical book illustrations; while Part Three concentrates
on visual cultures of commemoration, addressing British theatrical
reenactments and museum collections, and British and Dutch
paintings of the Battle of Waterloo. As such, the volume uncovers
fascinating new visual material and throws fresh light on some of
the more canonical visual representations of conflict during the
first 'Total War'.
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