The genesis of French Romanticism: P.-N. Guerin's studio and the public sphere
Scholars have presented innumerable definitions of Romanticism, which are often predicated on the ideologies of individualism and the avant-garde. In contrast, this dissertation argues French Romantic painting was actually defined in the realm of the bourgeois public sphere, where painters, the press, pamphleteers, agents of artistic institutions, and private citizens debated and ultimately determined the very nature of French Romantic painting.
Education, Art, History, European, Art History
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
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