Tradition and Desire: From David to Delacroix (Cambridge Studies in French)
Book Details
Author(s)Norman Bryson
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN / ASIN0521335620
ISBN-139780521335621
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Sales Rank1,894,775
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Description
In this highly original book Norman Bryson applied 'structuralist' and 'post-structuralist' approaches to French Romantic Painting. He considers the work of David, Ingres and Delacroix as artists who found themselves within an artistic tradition that had nothing creative to offer them.


