Fables in Frames
La Fontaine and Visual Culture in Nineteenth-Century France
Will be published approx. on 1. June 1997
Book
Hardback
XVI, 180 pages
978-0-8204-3096-6 (ISBN)
Description
Fables in Frames argues that the increased interest in the fables of La Fontaine during the nineteenth century resulted largely from the activities of artists, who offered the seventeenth-century fables new contexts for a post-Revolution age. First in caricature and book illustration and later in Salon painting, artists transformed the fables to comment on contemporary issues. The goal of this study is to tackle the general issue of why La Fontaine's fables appeared in art at all during the nineteenth century and to explore the specific questions of how certain artists made those texts culturally normative.
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The Author: Kirsten H. Powell is Professor of Art History at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. She has published widely on a variety of topics in nineteenth- and twentieth-century art. She is co-editor of Femmes d'esprit: Women in Daumier's Caricature. Her Ph.D. was awarded by Columbia University in 1985.