Overview
Art history is haunted by the foil: the dark star whose diminished luster sets off another's brilliance. Relegated to this role by modern historians of Revolutionary-era French art, Francois-Andre Vincent (17461816) is chiefly viewed in the reflection of his contemporary, Jacques-Louis David. The Perfect Foil frees Vincent from this distorting mirror. Offering a nuanced and historically accurate account of Vincent's life and work, Elizabeth C. Mansfield reveals the artist's profound influence on the visual culture of the French Revolution-and, paradoxically, on the art historical narrative that would consign him to obscurity.
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Author: Elizabeth C. Mansfield
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 0.726kg
ISBN: 9780816675814
ISBN 10: 0816675813
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 21 December 2011
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Elizabeth Mansfield's The Perfect Foil is a remarkable piece of scholarship that both transcends and transforms the genre of the art historical monograph. It is a sophisticated work that expands the way we conceive of how the visual arts and politics interacted during the French Revolution. Mansfield's provocative and methodological surefootedness will make readers aware of the contingencies that inform their own thinking. --Julie Anne Plax, author of Watteau and the Cultural Politics of Eighteenth Century France
Elizabeth Mansfield's The Perfect Foil is a remarkable piece of scholarship that both transcends and transforms the genre of the art historical monograph. It is a sophisticated work that expands the way we conceive of how the visual arts and politics interacted during the French Revolution. Mansfield's provocative and methodological surefootedness will make readers aware of the contingencies that inform their own thinking. -Julie Anne Plax, author of Watteau and the Cultural Politics of Eighteenth Century France
"""Elizabeth Mansfield’s The Perfect Foil is a remarkable piece of scholarship that both transcends and transforms the genre of the art historical monograph. It is a sophisticated work that expands the way we conceive of how the visual arts and politics interacted during the French Revolution. Mansfield’s provocative and methodological surefootedness will make readers aware of the contingencies that inform their own thinking."" —Julie Anne Plax, author of Watteau and the Cultural Politics of Eighteenth Century France"
<p> Elizabeth Mansfield's The Perfect Foil is a remarkable piece of scholarship that both transcends and transforms the genre of the art historical monograph. It is a sophisticated work that expands the way we conceive of how the visual arts and politics interacted during the French Revolution. Mansfield's provocative and methodological surefootedness will make readers aware of the contingencies that inform their own thinking. --Julie Anne Plax, author of Watteau and the Cultural Politics of Eighteenth Century France
Author Information
Elizabeth C. Mansfield is associate professor of art history at New York University. Her book Too Beautiful to Picture, also from Minnesota, received the College Art Association's Charles Rufus Morey Book Award in 2008.
