In the decades following the French Revolution, four artists -Girodet, Gros, Gericault and Delacroix - painted works in their Parisian studios that vividly expressed violent events and issues in faraway, colonial lands. This examination of six of these paintings argues that their disturbing, erotic depictions of slavery, revolt, plague, decapitation, cannibalism, massacre and abduction chart the history of France's empire and colonial politics.
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In the decades following the French Revolution, four artists -Girodet, Gros, Gericault and Delacroix - painted works in their Parisian studios that vividly expressed violent events and issues in faraway, colonial lands. This examination of six of these paintings argues that their disturbing, erotic depictions of slavery, revolt, plague, decapitation, cannibalism, massacre and abduction chart the history of France's empire and colonial politics.
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Very good in good dust jacket. Some Underling. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 393 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.
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