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Ingres Then, and Now

By (author) Adrian Rifkin

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A study of one of the best-known French artists of the 19th century, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. Adrian Rifkin re-evaluates Ingres' work in the context of a variety of literary, musical and visual cultures which are normally seen as alien to him. Re-viewing Ingres' paintings as a series of fragmentary symptoms of the commodity cultures of 19th-century Paris, Adrian Rifkin draws the artist away from his familiar association with the Academy and the Salon. Rifkin sets out to show how, by thinking of the historical archive as a form of the unconscious, the reader can renew their understanding of 19th-century conservative or academic cultures by reading them against their ""other"". He situates Ingres in the world of the Parisian Arcades, as represented by Walter Benjamin, and examines the effect of this juxtaposition on how we think of Benjamin himself, following Ingres' image in popular cultures of the 20th century. Rifkin then returns to the late-18th and early-19th centuries to find traces of the emergence of bizarre symptoms in Ingres' early work, symptoms which open him to a variety of conflicting readings and appropriations. It concludes by examining his importance for the grea

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Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published date | 23 Dec 1999
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 176
Dimensions | 234 x 156 x 0mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 385g
ISBN | 978-0-4150-6698-3
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