Jacques-Louis David's drawings
Bodies in action
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment; 2026:03;
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Product details:
- Publisher Voltaire Foundation
- Date of Publication 28 March 2026
- ISBN 9781836245711
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages366 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 108 700
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Short description:
This book examines the archetypical and best-known neoclassical painter in France from a different perspective, one that looks behind the finished painted surfaces and into his diversified preparatory methods. With a rich view of Jacques-Louis David?s drawings, new modes of figuration relate to questions of artistic autonomy and historical agency in times of political agitation.
MoreLong description:
This book draws a novel triangular connection between practices of drawing, questions of posture and notions of figural agency?carefully recreating Jacques-Louis David?s crafting of the human figure. Based on comprehensive research in David?s rarely seen drawing notebooks, it shows how understudied procedures, such as tracings, reversals, collages, grids, and revolving sketchbooks, are highly significant for his final artworks, affecting both the structure and meaning of his historical canvases. The changing conditions under which David worked?before the French Revolution, upon release from imprisonment, and as Napoleon?s First Painter?are centered here to examine notions of autonomy and activity in four of his most well-known pictures.
Forming new connections between stance and consciousness?of the artist working in his studio, the figures acting within the painting, and the political actions they represent?Mayer shows how paintings subconsciously reflect the history of their own making. Thus, her study examines the archetypical and best-known neoclassical painter in France from a different perspective, one that looks behind the finished painted surfaces and into his diversified preparatory methods. Her book offers a new view of David?s drawing as a rich, dispersed, and sometimes contradictory process, where new modes of figuration are linked to questions of artistic autonomy and historical agency in times of political agitation.
MoreTable of Contents:
Chapter 1: Beginnings: David, Drawing and the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 2: The Horatii
Chapter 3: The Sabines: Cutting and Pasting
Chapter 4: The Coronation: Squaring Systems
Chapter 5: Leonidas: Sketchbooks Revolved
Chapter 6: CODA
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