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Painting the prehistoric body in late nineteenth-century France
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- Creator
- Shalon Parker
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Newark : University of Delaware Press ; Lanham, Maryland : copublished by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2019]
- Physical Details
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- vii, 167 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781611496703, 1611496705, 9781611496710, 9781611496710
- OCLC
- on1048662822
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-161) and index.
- Introduction : the prehistoric world in fin-de-siècle France -- Précis of a model career, or following in the footsteps of Delacroix -- Caïn, evolutionary science, and the Académie -- Cormon, "ethnographer" of the prehistoric -- Representing human development in the Muséum d'histoire naturelle murals -- Conclusion : the prehistoric in the world of fin-de-siècle France
Subjects
- Cormon, Fernand, 1854-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Prehistoric peoples in art.
- Human figure in art.
- Painting, French -- 19th century -- Themes, motives.
- Academic art, French -- 19th century -- Themes, motives.
- Painting, French -- 20th century -- Themes, motives.
- Academic art, French -- 20th century -- Themes, motives.