TY  - GEN
T1  - The French Revolution as blasphemy : Johan Zoffany's paintings of the massacre at Paris, August 10, 1792
T2  - California studies in the history of art. Discovery series ;
A1  - Pressly, William L., 1944-
A2  - Zoffany, Johann, 1733-1810
LA  - English
PP  - Berkeley, Calif.
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 1999
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm44959185
AB  - William Pressly presents for the first time a close analysis of two important, neglected paintings, arguing that they are among the most extraordinary works of art devoted to the French Revolution. Johan Zoffany's Plundering the King's Cellar at Paris, August 10, 1792, and Celebrating over the Bodies of the Swiss Soldiers, both painted in about 1794, represent events that helped turn the English against the Revolution. Pressly places both paintings in their historical context--a time of heightened anti-French hysteria--and relates them to pictorial conventions: contemporary history painting, the depiction of urban mobs in satiric and festival imagery, and Hogarth's humorous presentation of modern moral subjects, all of which Zoffany adopted and reinvented for his own purposes. Pressly relates the paintings to Zoffany's status as a German-born Catholic living in Protestant England and to Zoffany's vision of revolutionary justice and the role played by the sansculottes, women, and blacks. He also examines the religious dimension in Zoffany's paintings, showing how they broke new ground by conveying Christian themes in a radically new format. Art historians will find Pressly's book of immense value, as will cultural historians interested in religion, gender, and race.
OP  - 211
CN  - ND497.Z6 A72 1999eb
SN  - 9780520920309
SN  - 0520920309
SN  - 0585178380
SN  - 9780585178387
SN  - 0520211960
KW  - Zoffany, Johann, : 1733-1810. : Plundering the King's cellar at Paris, August 10, 1792.
KW  - Zoffany, Johann, : 1733-1810. : Celebrating over the bodies of the Swiss soldiers, August 12, 1792.
KW  - Zoffany, Johann, : 1733-1810 : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Zoffany, Johann, : 1733-1810 : Critique et interprétation.
KW  - Zoffany, Johann, : 1733-1810
KW  - Plundering the King's cellar at Paris, August 10, 1792 (Zoffany, Johann)
KW  - France : History : Insurrection, 1792 : Art and the insurrection.
KW  - ART : History : General.
KW  - ART / European
KW  - France
KW  - Franse Revolutie.
KW  - Schilderijen.
KW  - Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
KW  - 1792
KW  - art devoted to french revolution.
KW  - art historians.
KW  - close analysis of french paintings.
KW  - contemporary history painting.
KW  - convey christian themes in new format.
KW  - cultural historians.
KW  - depiction of urban mobs.
KW  - heightened anti french hysteria.
KW  - hogarths presentation of modern moral subjects.
KW  - in satiric and festival imagery.
KW  - places paintings in historical context.
KW  - religious dimension in paintings.
KW  - turn english against revolution.
KW  - volume six.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - History
ER  -