Ingres Then, and Now

Ingres Then, and Now

by Adrian Rifkin
Ingres Then, and Now

Ingres Then, and Now

by Adrian Rifkin

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Ingres Then, and Now is an innovative study of one of the best-known French artists of the nineteenth century, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. Adrian Rifkin re-evaluates Ingres' work in the context of a variety of literary, musical and visual cultures which are normally seen as alien to him. Re-viewing Ingres' paintings as a series of fragmentary symptoms of the commodity cultures of nineteenth-century Paris, Adrian Rifkin draws the artist away from his familiar association with the Academy and the Salon.
Rifkin sets out to show how, by thinking of the historical archive as a form of the unconscious, we can renew our understanding of nineteenth-century conservative or academic cultures by reading them against their 'other'. He situates Ingres in the world of the Parisian Arcades, as represented by Walter Benjamin, and examines the effect of this juxtaposition on how we think of Benjamin himself, following Ingres' image in popular cultures of the twentieth century. Rifkin then returns to the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to find traces of the emergence of bizarre symptoms in Ingres' early work, symptoms which open him to a variety of conflicting readings and appropriations. It concludes by examining his importance for the great French art critic Jean Cassou on the one hand, and in making a bold, contemporary gay appropriation on the other.
Ingres Then, and Now transforms the popular image we have of Ingres. It argues that the figure of the artist is neither fixed in time or place - there is neither an essential man named Ingres, nor a singular body of his work - but is an effect of many, complex and overlapping historical effects.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781134918713
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 06/20/2005
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 176
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Adrian Rifkin is Professor of Visual Culture and Media at Middlesex University. He is the author of Street Noises: Parisian Pleasure 1900-1940 (1993).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Preliminary Introduction 1.Ingres and the Arcades 2.Academie, or the colour white and the childhood of art criticism 3.A filament in the tissues of modernity

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…offers the reader an array of brilliant and unexpected insights-at times focused on Ingres, at others opening out onto new ways of thinking about modernity and the fabric of modern culture.

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