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Chains

Satish Padiyar · 2007

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"Focusing on Jacques-Louis David's Leonidas at the Pass of Thermopylae, Chains embarks on a discourse about the perception of the body, sexuality, and subjectivity in early-nineteenth-century European art." "In addition to David, Chains explores the sculptural oeuvre of David's contemporary and rival, Italian sculptor Antonio Canova. Padiyar argues that, like David's postrevolutionary work, Canova's innovative sculptures embodied a new, distinctively modern type of subjectivity. The book aims to take a fresh view of the status of the male body in the work of these two late neoclassical artists by linking them in novel and sometimes unexpected ways with key figures of the late Enlightenment."--BOOK JACKET.

Book details

Year
2007
Language
English
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press
Editions
1
Pages
225
ISBN
9780271029634

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