1st Edition

Ingres Then, and Now

By Adrian Rifkin Copyright 2000
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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

Biography

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