The Visual Culture of Violence After the French Revolution
Auteur : Graybill Lela
The Visual Culture of Violence after the French Revolution traces four sites of spectatorship that exemplified the visual culture of violence in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, offering a new account of the significance of violent spectacle to the birth of modernity. Considerations of the execution scaffold, salon painting, print culture and the fait divers, and waxworks displays establish the centrality of spectatorial violence to experiences of selfhood in the wake of the French Revolution. Shedding critical light on previously neglected aspects of art and visual culture of the post-Revolutionary period, The Visual Culture of Violence after the French Revolution demonstrates how violent spectacle at this moment was profoundly shaped by shifting social attitudes, contemporary political practices, and rapidly accelerated technological developments. By attending to the formal and historical specificity of violent spectacle after the Revolution, Graybill affirms the historical contingency through which the visual culture of violence in the modern era has emerged.
The Visual Culture of Violence after the French Revolution will be broadly relevant to scholars of art, media and visual studies, and particularly to historians of the French Revolution and eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Europe. The book's concern with the representation of violence makes it of interest to scholars working in a variety of fields beyond its historical period, especially in art, literature, history, media and culture studies.
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 The Guillotine in Perspective
2 The Limit Case: Philippe-Auguste Hennequin’s The Remorse of Orestes at the Salon of 1800
3 Technologies of Witness: Violent Spectacle and the Fualdès Affair
4 A Proximate Violence: Madame Tussaud’s Chamber of Horrors
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Lela Graybill is Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Utah, USA.
Date de parution : 07-2016
15.6x23.4 cm
Thèmes de The Visual Culture of Violence After the French Revolution :
Mots-clés :
Young Man; Sophie De Grouchy; eighteenth century; Madame Tussaud’s Chamber; nineteenth century; Place De La Revolution; France; RMN Grand Palais; revolutionary France; De Agostini Picture Library; modernity; Photo Credit; executions; Tussaud’s Chamber; painting; True Crime Genre; salons; Capital Punishment; print culture; Chatsworth Settlement Trustees; art and politics; Nationale De France; war studies; Tussaud’s Exhibition; visual studies; Early Modern Punishment; Daniel Arasse; Charlotte Corday; De Grouchy; Tragic Pleasure; Fait Divers; Goya’s Image; Colored Etching; Awful Execution; Erich Lessing; Marquis De Condorcet; Modern Liberal State