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Ingres, Then and Now (Re Visions : Critical Studies in the History and Theory of Art) (Re Visions) by Adrian Rifkin; Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Ingres Then, and Now is an innovative study of one of the best-known French artists of the nineteenth 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 nineteenth-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, we can renew our understanding of nineteenth-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 twentieth century. Rifkin then returns to the late eighteenth and early nineteenth 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 appropri

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Author

Adrian Rifkin; Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781134918690

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, History, Art