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In revolutionary France the life of things could not be assured. War, shortage of materials, and ... more In revolutionary France the life of things could not be assured. War, shortage of materials, and frequent changes in political authority meant that few large-scale artworks or permanent monuments to the Revolution’s memory were completed. On the contrary, visual practice in revolutionary France was characterized by the production and circulation of a range of transitional, provisional, ephemeral, and half-made images and objects, from printed paper money, passports, and almanacs to temporary festival installations and relics of the demolished Bastille. Addressing this mass of images conventionally ignored in art history, 'The Politics of the Provisional' contends that they were at the heart of debates on the nature of political authenticity and historical memory during the French Revolution. Thinking about material durability, this book suggests, was one of the key ways in which revolutionaries conceptualized duration, and it was crucial to how they imagined the Revolution’s transformative role in history.
*** Shortlisted for the R.H.Gapper Prize, Society for French Studies.
*** Reviewed in: Print Quarterly, American Historical Review, Kunstchronik, Critical Inquiry, Visual Resources, Oxford Art Journal, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Francia-Recensio, French Studies, French History, Eighteenth-Century Studies, CAA.Reviews, Stichting Jacob Campo Weyerman
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The radical break with the past heralded by the French Revolution in 1789 has become one of the m... more The radical break with the past heralded by the French Revolution in 1789 has become one of the mythic narratives of our time. Yet in the drawn-out afterlife of the Revolution, and through subsequent periods of Empire, Restoration, and Republic, the question of what such a temporal transformation might involve found complex, often unresolved expression in visual and material culture.
This diverse collection of essays draws attention to the eclectic objects and forms of visuality that emerged in France from the beginning of the French Revolution through to the end of the July Monarchy in 1848. It offers a new account of the story of French art's modernity by exploring the work of genre painters and miniaturists, sign-painters and animal artists, landscapists, architects, and printmakers, as they worked out what it meant to be “post-revolutionary.”
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Books by Richard Taws
*** Shortlisted for the R.H.Gapper Prize, Society for French Studies.
*** Reviewed in: Print Quarterly, American Historical Review, Kunstchronik, Critical Inquiry, Visual Resources, Oxford Art Journal, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Francia-Recensio, French Studies, French History, Eighteenth-Century Studies, CAA.Reviews, Stichting Jacob Campo Weyerman
Edited Collections by Richard Taws
This diverse collection of essays draws attention to the eclectic objects and forms of visuality that emerged in France from the beginning of the French Revolution through to the end of the July Monarchy in 1848. It offers a new account of the story of French art's modernity by exploring the work of genre painters and miniaturists, sign-painters and animal artists, landscapists, architects, and printmakers, as they worked out what it meant to be “post-revolutionary.”
Exhibitions by Richard Taws
Journal Articles by Richard Taws
*** Shortlisted for the R.H.Gapper Prize, Society for French Studies.
*** Reviewed in: Print Quarterly, American Historical Review, Kunstchronik, Critical Inquiry, Visual Resources, Oxford Art Journal, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Francia-Recensio, French Studies, French History, Eighteenth-Century Studies, CAA.Reviews, Stichting Jacob Campo Weyerman
This diverse collection of essays draws attention to the eclectic objects and forms of visuality that emerged in France from the beginning of the French Revolution through to the end of the July Monarchy in 1848. It offers a new account of the story of French art's modernity by exploring the work of genre painters and miniaturists, sign-painters and animal artists, landscapists, architects, and printmakers, as they worked out what it meant to be “post-revolutionary.”