Jacques-Louis David, Revolutionary Artist: Art, Politics, and the French Revolution

The lifetime of Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) coincides with the most tumultuous period in the history of France and much of the Western world. And David's life was closely bound up with the changes that were taking place in French politics, society, and culture. Although most other scholars have focused either on David's artistic activity or on his political career, Warren Roberts examines the connections between these two aspects of his life. Using a historical approach, Roberts provides an interpretation of David's art that illuminates David the man.

Roberts presents David's art as a personal record that is an extension of his inner life and a product of historical conditions. David's art, like his character and his actions, cannot be fully understood without understanding the changes that led to and then flowed from the French Revolution. Roberts here considers these changes and their impact on David from the perspectives of the historian and the art historian, and he comes to conclusions that are important for both.

Author: Warren Roberts
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 02/01/1992
Pages: 324
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.10w x 0.89d
ISBN: 9780807843505

About the Author
Roberts, Warren: - Warren Roberts, Distinguished Teaching Professor of History at the University at Albany, is author of Morality and Social Class in Eighteenth-Century French Literature and Jane Austen and the French Revolution.