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Narrative Painting in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Narrative Painting in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Lübbren, Nina

Hardcover

Art Criticism & TheoryEuropean ArtGeneral World History

ISBN10: 152616857X
ISBN13: 9781526168573
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: May 23 2023
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.90
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.53
Language: English
This ground-breaking book presents a critical study of pictorial narrative in nineteenth-century European painting. Covering works from France, Germany, Britain, Italy and elsewhere, it traces the ways in which immensely popular artists like Jean-Léon Gérôme, Karl von Piloty and William Quiller Orchardson used unique visual strategies to tell thrilling and engaging stories. Regardless of genre, content or national context, these paintings share a fundamental modern narrative mode. Unlike traditional art, they do not rely on textual sources; nor do they tell stories through the human body alone. Instead, they experiment with objects, spaces, cause-and-effect relations and open-ended ambiguity, prompting viewers and reviewers to read for clues in order to weave their own elaborate tales.

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