French Sculpture Following the Franco-Prussian War, 1870–80
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Albert Ernest Carrier Belleuse
allegorical realism
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Des Beaux Arts
Edmond De Goncourt
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Firemen
Franco-Prussian War
gender representation
gloria
Gloria Victis
hand
Hand Colored Lithograph
Hoi Polloi
Judith Cladel
La Barricade
La Defense De Paris
Life Cast
lithograph
military defeat memory
Napoleon III
national identity studies
nineteenth-century art
place
Place De La Concorde
Place Des Pyramides
prix
Prix De Rome
public monuments France
Rodin's Oeuvre
Rodin's Sculpture
Rodin's Work
Rodin’s Oeuvre
Rodin’s Sculpture
Rodin’s Work
rome
sanglante
Sculptural Aesthetic
Sculptural Idiom
sculpture gender politics
semaine
Semaine Sanglante
Snow Sculpture
victis
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781409403524
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 08 Nov 2010
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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French Sculpture Following the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-80 investigates the role played by the trope of the 'strong woman, fallen man' in re-establishing morale among the French people following the Franco-Prussian War. The study explores how certain French sculptors - including Falguière, Mercié, Barrias, and Rodin - presented this recent history of defeat in commemorative monuments that increasingly dominated public space across France during the final decades of the nineteenth century. Though it focuses on French nationalism and the commemoration of war (or, as is the case with the French following the Franco-Prussian War, the commemoration of defeat), this volume also examines shifts in gender roles in the latter half of the nineteenth century, and the impact of military defeat on relations between the sexes. The book probes the aesthetic discourse of the period concerning the merits of traditional allegorical sculpture versus new-fangled realist sculpture in depicting modern life. Drawing on extensive archival research, Michael Dorsch gives a voice to the sculptures he discusses, restoring these often ignored works to their proper place in history.
Michael Dorsch is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art History at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, USA.
