Narrative painting in nineteenth-century Europe
Nina Lübbren
- 296 pages
- English
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Narrative painting in nineteenth-century Europe
Nina Lübbren
About This Book
This ground-breaking book presents a critical study of pictorial narrative in nineteenth-century European painting. Covering works from France, Germany, Britain, Italy and elsewhere, it traces the ways in which immensely popular artists like Jean-Léon Gérôme, Karl von Piloty and William Quiller Orchardson used unique visual strategies to tell thrilling and engaging stories. Regardless of genre, content or national context, these paintings share a fundamental modern narrative mode. Unlike traditional art, they do not rely on textual sources; nor do they tell stories through the human body alone. Instead, they experiment with objects, spaces, cause-and-effect relations and open-ended ambiguity, prompting viewers and reviewers to read for clues in order to weave their own elaborate tales.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of plates
- List of figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. The terms of narrative
- 2. Eloquent objects
- 3. Patterns of reception
- 4. Stories in paint
- 5. Epilogue: into the twentieth century
- Select bibliography
- Index