Tradition and Desire
From David to Delacroix
by Norman Bryson
228 pages· 1984· ISBN 9780521241939
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In this highly original book Norman Bryson applied 'structuralist' and 'post-structuralist' approaches to French Romantic Painting. He considers the work of David, Ingres and Delacroix as artists who found themselves within an artistic tradition that had nothing creative to offer them.
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